define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); todd zafirovski – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:20:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Deconstructing NCPA’s “The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport” http://rushthecourt.net/2011/09/15/breaking-down-the-price-of-poverty-in-big-time-college-sport/ http://rushthecourt.net/2011/09/15/breaking-down-the-price-of-poverty-in-big-time-college-sport/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:00:55 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=40332

Over the past few months there has been a growing sentiment that college players, particularly those in revenue-generating sports, deserve to be paid in addition to the value of their athletic scholarships. The recently released report (full PDF here) by the National College Players Association (NCPA) and Drexel professor Ellen Staurowsky created a lot of buzz and has been used by many proponents of proposals to pay college athletes as a piece of academic evidence to reinforce the notion that the athletes are getting cheated out of millions, if not billions, of dollars. While the report does a good job [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2011/09/15/breaking-down-the-price-of-poverty-in-big-time-college-sport/feed/ 0