- Reporter's Notebook: College Athletes Exploited
The NCAA basketball championship is a competitive tournament with high TV ratings means big money for the institutions involved. It also belies the continuing disparity between athletic performance and academic success. In 2001, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics recommended that only those teams that graduate 50% of their athletes be allowed to participate. By that standard, nearly two-thirds of this year's tournament teams--42 out of 65--would have been ineligible. We talk about charges of exploitation of college athletes with administrators of universities, their athletic departments and the NCAA, and the chairman of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
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