The problems faced by college athletics range from the athlete becoming “professionalized” to the weight placed on the “scoreboard” to the commercialism of college sports. Until the NCAA and individual colleges’ athletic departments can formulate a plan to “de-professionalize” or, on the other hand, “professionalize” college athletics, a problem will exist between college athletes and the academic institution they represent. The individual athletes who make up collegiate athletic teams have been given the responsibility of …showed first 75 words of 1410 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1410 total…placed on the “scoreboard,” the “amateur-professional student-athlete,” and the commercialism prevalent in college sports, the only solution is to let the problems correct themselves. “Carefully targeted reforms can encourage modest adjustments in sports organization and behavior to eliminate, or at least effectively contain, the most corrupt features of college sports” (Hart-Nibbrig & Cottingham 117). However, whatever option is chosen, the organizations will try to make money, “rewarding both honest and corrupt producers as long as they produce.”