Why the NCAA’s Efforts to Preserve Amateurism Are Both Lawful and in the Best Interest of College Athletics

By Philip D. Bartz and Nicholas S. Sloey [1]   College football has been riddled over the past year with scandals, rule violations, and the movement of teams from one conference to another. Media coverage has been quite negative, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) often is cast as the villain. Well-regarded economist, Andy Schwarz, has attacked the NCAA’s amateurism model. [2] Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, in a rigorous critique of the NCAA