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Schooled: The Price of College Sports - Documentary on NCAA Athlete Compensation & Education System | Perfect for Sports Fans, Students & Educators
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Schooled: The Price of College Sports - Documentary on NCAA Athlete Compensation & Education System | Perfect for Sports Fans, Students & Educators
Schooled: The Price of College Sports - Documentary on NCAA Athlete Compensation & Education System | Perfect for Sports Fans, Students & Educators
Schooled: The Price of College Sports - Documentary on NCAA Athlete Compensation & Education System | Perfect for Sports Fans, Students & Educators
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This compelling documentary examines the business of college football and basketball and the NCAA's treatment of it's athletes. Based on the controversial article "The Shame of College Sports" by historian and former football player Taylor Branch, this hard-hitting expose tells a story of how college sports became a billion dollar industry built on dedicated young athletes who are deprived of numerous rights. Weaving interviews, archival and behind-the-scenes footage, the documentary sheds a new light on all college sports programs. Narrated by Sam Rockwell (The Way Way Back, Cowboys and Aliens, the Green Mile) and featuring interviews with TV sportscaster Bob Costa, Houston Texans star running back Arian Foster, and other figureheads of American sports. Executive produced by Bobby Valentine.
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Good discussion of the impact of big-time college revenue sports on the "student athletes" who all too often aren't really students as much as semi-pro athletes and the challenges facing the universities to try to keep the athletes academically eligible to play the sport. The documentary showed the University of North Carolina but did not focus on the major academic scandal involving athletes and "paper courses" devised to raise the quality point average of the players enabling the star players to remain eligible to play in the game and which resulted in ruining reputations, loss of jobs and a continuing embarrassment years later for a quality academic institution with a history of championship college men's and women's basketball. Well done documentary that did discuss the coining of the term "student athlete" and the reason that the NCAA devised this label and became "the" authority over college athletics. I would have liked the film to at least touch on other options for correction of the problem rather than focusing on just paying the athletes, which many of the players want in return for their service and the revenue they bring to the schools.As a fan of big-time college football and someone whose career was in academe, I would like to see individuals who are promising professional athletes have a way to enter the NFL and NBA drafts without the farce of being admitted to a major university and playing for the scholarship but often without the desire or ability to do collegiate work. The documentary did point out that it is theoretically possible for an athlete to go directly into the NBA out of high school and to be able to play on a farm-team of a major baseball club but very few athletes are able to do this---Koby Bryant is an example of an athlete who went from high school directly to the NBA but he was an exceptional athlete and evidently did not require several years of coaching prior to being drafted into pro ball. The NCAA needs to require and enforce requirements that all athletes actually have the ability to meet admission standards and to be given the time to study so that the athlete could receive a quality education in return for playing his or her sport. All schools abiding by the same rules without cheating would result in a more level playing field and the games would still be exciting to the millions of college sports fans. Alumni are still going to support their school's teams and still donate money to their alma maters. High school football and basketball games are exciting to watch and are not corrupted by some well-financed schools being able to have an advantage over other programs. Before television and product endorsement contracts brought in billions of dollars to the colleges and universities for their coaching staffs and athletic programs I don't think there was as much pressure on the schools to come up with creative and dishonest ways to keep some athletes eligible to play. The revenue sports, in particular men's basketball and football, support and make possible all of the other sports on the campus. It was pointed out that the vast percentage of college athletes are not drafted to play at the next level and are left with little to show for their contributions.

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