The NCAA is taking a powerful step by funding gambling education for college athletes. Dan Riley explains why teaching the risks behind betting scandals is essential to protecting student-athletes from the dangers that can derail careers—and lives.
This shift makes NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals a much-needed and welcome development in college football and basketball.
The NCAA embraced this model because, in the 1800s, it was the only way to justify profit-driven college sports.
This move is driven by political motives rather than moral ones: the NCAA has historically not provided health insurance for athletes, so there’s no reason to believe they will start now.
Both football and basketball need to require schools to schedule division II teams much more often to help these survive.
We will see how the President of the NCAA handles the many Issues.
Bowl season is an opportunity to redirect athletic department money to pay player’s medical bills, improve their lives after the game
Such a change would reflect well on Mark Emmett and the NCAA. The game would be safer, have more integrity, and Make college sports easier for people to stomach in an age where it’s under fire from seemingly everyone!