- Hobson, Will. “When Pool Is NCAA’s Basketball Fund, Conferences Have a Lot Riding on Games.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 18 Mar. 2014, www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/sports/ncaa-money/#:~:text=The%20men’s%20basketball%20tournament%20basically,largest%20piece%20of%20that%20distribution.
- The article breaks down the average revenue that the NCAA Basketball receives a year and also how it is disputed to colleges, etc. The main point of the article is that the NCAA has more than enough money to pay athletes that play basketball but instead keeps it doesn’t pay the players at all. Based on the article, NCAA makes billions of dollars a year and keeps 40 percent of the cut and the other 60 percent of the money goes to the colleges and it’s important to know that all the people that receive the money didn’t step foot on the court and put their body on the line to win games. Also to add the fact schools who participate in the March Madness tournament and win a couple of games before getting knocked out of the tournament get a bonus to what they already make. The author concludes the article with the most important thing and it’s no pay for play which is essentially the author explaining how athletes who play the game don’t even get a cent for the hard work and determination they put on the court.
- In my opinion, I love the way the author structured this article this is because he didn’t just start off at athletes should be paid but instead, he explains how the yearly revenue was disputed and how paying athletes isn’t just pulling money out of thin air it’s very much possible looking at how much money is made on college basketball.
- Will Hobson, who’d graduated from Boston College earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Art in English. Hobson is a national sports reporter for the Washington Post and in 2014, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for his work on Tampa Bay Times stories on corruption with landlords being abusive to tenants. I think he’s credible to use his work as evidence because he focuses on sports and investigation and also Washington post is a very reliable source.
- The source can be categorized as an article this is because the issue is well written and also supported with many facts such as explain how the money is made and disputed in college basketball and how it related to the bigger issue. This article really informs the reader of what actually goes on. This choice of genre is really good when focusing on an issue because you are able to show all the sides of the viewpoint of how it looks on the problem which the author did a good job in.
- Through the article there one quote that caught my eye instantly which is “The “basketball fund,” as it’s simply labeled, is the largest pool of money the NCAA doles out to schools and the only one allocated according to competitive sports success. A closer look at where the money goes illuminates the stratified economic landscape of college sports, where the rich schools get richer and the players remain amateurs.”. This is the key quote in my opinion because the way it has essential points such as how college basketball makes a lot of money which makes schools richer and richer and athletes who don’t go pro not make a cent from it.
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Thanks for posting this.
-Prof. Scanlan