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Essay / Recruiting Violations in College Sports - 2227
Sports are extremely popular around the world and are only growing in popularity over time. Sport is featured on television (TV), on the news, in newspapers and online. It makes sense that this is the case. A sporting event is the ultimate drama. The variability of a game is what attracts people so much. Sports can tell a story, teach great life lessons and inspire people. If sports are so important to people around the world who watch them, just think how important sports are to those who play and coach them. It’s their passion, their personality, their life. With the media's harsh expectations of today's teams, unless a team wins a championship, it is considered a failure. With expectations being so high, everyone wants to compete to be the best. If a team wants to have a chance to compete, it must have the best players or the best combination of consistent players. In professional sports, it's an easy solution. In professional sports, athletes are paid to play and are therefore marketable. To obtain players, teams can sign contracts with players, there are drafts or teams can trade with other teams. So professional sports teams can buy good players, whereas in college it's not so easy. In college sports, since athletes are not professionals but simply student-athletes, these athletes cannot take money to play sports at a certain university. However, colleges should not simply choose from the students they have at their school. They can recruit. Recruiting involves enticing an athlete to come play at a college, making that college the ideal place for an athlete to play. Seems fair, the player ultimately chooses where they want to play. However, the problem is that coaches and media circles go to great lengths to promote fair recruiting and discourage bad behavior. Through strict regulations and numerous penalties, the NCAA limits recruiting violations. This instills fear in coaches across America, sending them the message that if they recruit unfairly, they will be punished. Although it sometimes seems unfair, the NCAA is taking the necessary steps to clean up college sports. Works Cited “Recruiting – NCAA.org”. Public Home Page - NCAA.org. NCAA, January 1, 2010. Web. March 6, 2011. .Wojnarowski, Adrian. "ESPN.com: GEN - Bring back the death penalty." ESPN: the world leader in sports. ESPN, February 1, 2011. Web. March 7. 2011. .