To the editor: Those that detest school athletes having fun with the fruits of their labor ignore the 1995 e book written by former NCAA government Walter Byers, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting School Athletes.” (“This lawsuit has NCAA staring down extinction. Is {that a} dangerous factor?” column, Nov. 29)
From 1951 to 1987, Byers reigned because the Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Assn.’s first government director. Byers reworked the NCAA from a rickety mom-and-pop operation right into a cash-flowing cartel, bloated by the signing of a number of tv contracts.
Maybe responsible, Byers wrote in his e book that the remedy of faculty athletes was “the plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by as we speak’s campus leaders.”
In fact, it is superb that Texas A&M College is paying a soccer coach $75 million after he was fired. However how do coaches navigate athletes leveraging their very own title and likeness?
Approach again in 2014, U.S. District Choose Claudia Wilken dominated that the NCAA coverage prohibiting athletes from getting cash violated antitrust legal guidelines. Its conceitedness burned, the NCAA dug in and refused to vary its exploitative mannequin.
Now the NCAA is lamenting its self-inflicted demise as a result of a $1.4 billion class motion lawsuit. The chickens have come residence to roost.
Marc D. Greenwood, Opelika, Ala.
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To the editor: Once I was a pupil at USC within the Sixties, the seats on the 50-yard line within the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum have been reserved for college students. At a later stage they have been transferred to excessive rollers and the scholars have been moved to the top zone.
It was then that the parable of faculty soccer as an beginner sport collapsed.
Hal Drake, Santa Barbara