How do athletes in big-time football and basketball programs perform academically, compared to the general student body? How do universities and the NCAA wield power and control over college athletes by maintaining that college athletics is an amateur enterprise? Do you agree or disagree with the assertion that “big-time college sports are a plantation”, and that college athletes are “exploited”? If sp, in what ways do you think big-time college sports should be reformed? What social theory is the best lens through which to interpret big time college sports?

How do athletes in big-time football and basketball programs perform academically, compared to the general student body? How do universities and the NCAA wield power and control over college athletes by maintaining that college athletics is an amateur enterprise? Do you agree or disagree with the assertion that “big-time college sports are a plantation”, and that college athletes are “exploited”? If sp, in what ways do you think big-time college sports should be reformed? What social theory is the best lens through which to interpret big time college sports?

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