What a Shame College Sports....

College sports have been around for a very long time. They started very early on and were believe to be a scandal of certain schools. In 1984 Vaccaro helped Michael Jordan to promote a certain sneaker line which supported the idea that college athletics were a scandal. College athletes paired with getting paid would not cause the universities to earn money, but it would cause positive publicity for the colleges and what they were doing with athletes and education. This would cause money to be administered to the universities from boosters and various other sources such as businesses supporting the universities and random donations from alumni. From this type of publicity would also come fans and others to observe the athletic events, earning the universities money through fan gear and entrance fees. The universities were promoting athletes at the same time, as well as the athletes were promoting themselves. They would trade autographs and gear in order to receive tattoos and various other items. Colleges than were deciding that the athletes should not receive financial assistance for their participation in athletics. This was decided by the NCAA, crushing the student athletes, especially those with financial difficulties. Walter Camp decided that he would build an official stadium as well as an official field in order to allow for the athletics to become more serious. He did this without compensation and on his own time. He was considered the father of football. In 1842, football was introduced to Yale and quickly became a very popular athletic activity. At this time, Theodore Roosevelt was in his term of presidency. He decided to get involved in college athletics by making it safer to play. Roosevelt was also a large instigator for the NCAA, allowing it to become more official for the sake of the safety of the athletes. 1948 a sanity code was released allowing student athletes to receive money on a need basis. This had to coincide with their academic achievements. This led to the boosting of grades, causing the athletes to appear that they were passing in order to be eligible. This led to many other unlawful acts such as shaving points in basketball games and allowing for certain publicity to access more money. Byers had something that was called the "Big Bluff" which resulted in an empty stadium for the Penn vs. Yale game. NBC than started allowing for college athletics to be broad casted on television. After all this publicity and athletic happenings in the universities, there began to be many controversies and lawsuits over money and the compensation allowed for individual students athletes in certain cases, especially career ending injuries. This occurred with the employees involved with athletics and athletes, like teachers and coaches. The rules always seemed to be very sporadic or easily bent for certain athletes and certain situations. Overall the NCAA has come a long way and developed guidelines in order to be the most beneficial for athletes and their opportunity for a higher education.