Literature Review #1

Lit Review #1

Barbash, Louis. “Pay or Don't Play.” Washington Monthly. Sep/Oct2013, Vol. 45 Issue 9/10, p13-15. 3p. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Web 29 Feb. 2016. . “Pay or Don't Play.” Washington Monthly. Sep/Oct2013, Vol. 45 Issue 9/10, p13-15. 3p. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Web 21 Feb. 2016.

Summary:
The article is pushing the point across that the NCAA should be paying its basketball players. The author describes the need for players to be getting paid on-top of free tuition, and that in the long run this will actually increase competition in NCAA basketball. By not paying student athletes, they are looking elsewhere for ways to get to the NBA, and this is resulting in less talented competition for college basketball.

Author:
Louis Barbash, writer for Washington Monthly.

Key Terms:
Cartel- Barbash calls the NCAA a "cartel" implying that the NCAA creates a price fixing agreement among the member schools and among the student athletes, and tries to diminish any other competition. 
"One and Done" rule - A very important rule for Barbash's argument that states the NBA only requires one year of college play before being eligible for the NBA draft.

Quotes:
"Now, dozens every year desert the college game for something they can’t get in college—the chance to share in the revenues their performances create—and their departures have fractured the college basketball cartel’s hold on its sport."(13)

"So it worked for college basketball and the NBA. For the players? Well, not so much. Yes, they got four years of college, provided at wholesale, priced at retail. But recurring scandals surrounding college players’ academic eligibility called into question how high a value some colleges and some players attached to whatever education was taking place."(14)

"So pay the players. Pay them what the market will bear—maybe in the low-five-figure range of the salaries now paid to players in the NBA’s Development League. Allow them union representation like NBA and NFL players have. Provide a free college education—a real college education—for players who want one"(15)

Value: This article holds a lot of powerful information for me to prove certain points I want to make. This article focuses on primarily college basketball, but I will be able to take certain points the author makes and apply them to college sports as a whole. I also like the whole "cartel" thing because it sheds light on how unfair the NCAA actually is and brings up opportunity for me to capitalize on in my paper.