Reform Models in Collegiate Sports

Over the past 100 years, college sports have attracted controversy pertaining to how they should be treated, that is, as business opportunities or academic vocation. Different reforms have been initiated, with academicians and researchers coming up with different models explaining how college sports and sports people should be treated. These models seek to understand and give directions on the need for balancing education with commercialized sports. Three key conceptual models have been initiated to reform college sports by scholars such as Craughron, Benford, Smith and Gerdy (Sack, 2009). In addition, Roy, Graeff & Harman (2008) underscore that these models include the intellect elitism, the athletes’ rights and academic capitalists. These three models represent varying views pertaining to the role of commercialized college sports in today’s learning education or higher education. This understanding portends that the major focus, despite their contrasting views, is on revenue generating sports, emphasizing the increasing stakeholder’s roles, including college athletes and institutio…