Deck 10: Intercollegiate Sport Main Themes

Question 1

Intercollegiate athletes on an NCAA "full-ride" athletic scholarship at a given university officially receive financial benefits that are commensurate with their athletic ability-in other words, some receive more than others.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

It is common practice among NCAA Division I institutions that the money earned from collegiate sports is used to help other parts of the university.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

There is rather convincing evidence that alumni contributions to the general university fund increase when the university's football and basketball teams are successful.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Every study that has compared African American athletes with their white counterparts has found them less prepared for college and more likely to enter college as marginal students.

Question 5

The amateur ideology employed in intercollegiate athletics has tended to keep commercialization out of college sports.

Question 6

The first intercollegiate sports event in the United States was a rowing race between Harvard and Yale.

Question 7

Examples given in the chapter on intercollegiate athletics demonstrate clearly that college athletic programs have continued to be modeled after amateur athletics.

Question 8

In most cases scandals involving illegal and immoral behavior of overzealous coaches result in guilty coaches being fired for their transgressions.

Question 9

The NCAA has lobbied and argued strenuously to retain the amateur status of college athletes.

Question 10

Your textbook authors suggest that one of the needed reforms in intercollegiate athletics is that athletics departments must be separated from their institutions as self- contained corporate entities.

Question 11

Illegal payments to student-athletes outside the NCAA rules are widespread.

Question 12

Division I male athletes in the revenue-producing sports have the lowest grades and
graduation rates of any athlete category.

Question 13

Without subsidies from the schools and students (from their fees), fewer than 10 percent of Division I athletic departments would break even or make a profit.

Question 14

Which of the following is accurate? College athletes on an official NCAA full-ride athletic scholarship

A) receive financial remuneration based on market forces.
B) receive financial remuneration that is commensurate with their athletic ability.
C) can endorse products and engage in commercialization of their talent.
D) do not receive financial remuneration based on market forces.

Question 15

Which category of athletes has the highest graduation rate?

A) Women
B) Whites
C) Those in non-revenue-producing sports
D) Those in revenue-producing sports

Question 16

Big-time intercollegiate sports programs

A) typically do not make a profit.
B) usually generate enough income to support academic programs.
C) are usually profit-making.
D) None of the above

Question 17

Football and basketball coaches at big-time universities

A) are typically paid about the same as the presidents at their universities.
B) often make more than the university president.
C) typically hold the rank of at least associate professor.
D) typically are paid the same salary as full professors.

Question 18

One consequence of an intercollegiate athletic department's search for money is

A) television often dictates schedules.
B) relatively few seats available in arenas go to students.
C) illegal offers are made when recruiting prospective student-athletes.
D) All of the above

Question 19

The NCAA rules enforce on student-athletes.

A) professional standing
B) a code of amateurism
C) compliance with a worker's compensation contract
D) a work schedule of practices

Question 20

Which of the following reforms for emphasizing education of student-athletes is/are proposed in your text?

A) Admit only student-athletes who have the potential to compete as students.
B) Freshmen should be ineligible for varsity sports.
C) Colleges must insist that athletes make satisfactory progress toward a degree.
D) All of the above
E) A and C only

Question 21

"Clustering" refers to

A) athletes overrepresented in easy majors.
B) the overrepresentation of athletes by race at the various positions in team sports.
C) unsportsmanlike behaviors during contests.
D) the tendency for athletes to socialize with other athletes rather than with nonathletes.

Question 22

Your textbook authors describe three critical areas to which reform in big-time college sports should be directed. What are these crucial areas? Summarize the types of changes suggested and the research for each area.

Question 23

Research indicates that athletes in big-time football and basketball programs do not perform at the same level academically as other athletes and the general student body. Areas of difference are intellectual preparation for college, academic performance, and graduation rates.

Question 24

By maintaining that college athletics is an amateur enterprise, universities and the NCAA are able to wield a great deal of power and control over the athletes. Describe at least four adverse consequences for athletes at major universities when college sports are defined as an amateur enterprise.

Question 25

Respond to the following: "Intercollegiate athletics thrive on the exploitation of student-athletes." Either agree or disagree with the statement and explain the basis of your position.

Question 26

Do you agree or disagree with the assertion that "big-time college sports are a plantation"? Support your argument with facts.