This extensive article written by Taylor Branch brings the scandalous workings of the NCAA out into the open. It also describes how the student-athlete is the victim. Many large sports corporations offer money to high school graduates in order to recruit them to whichever college team they please. The NCAA receives mass amounts of money from media, merchandise, and sports equipment corporations. The NCAA then sends money out to all the member schools, the big revenue schools making 40 to 80 million dollars a year. None of this money makes it to the student besides their scholarship. But if an athlete gets injured or performs poorly he is left out to dry. Taylor Branch gives multiple examples of students who lost cases against the NCAA because of the student-athlete policy. However there are still a large number of lawsuits working their way through the courts system that have the potential of destroying the NCAA.
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