The Business of Sports

The Business of Sports

Are the issues unique to one level to another?

Financial inequality: An issue

College level: Financial inequality

Basically, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a union of many colleges and universities in United States and Canada. It organizes athletic programs at collegiate levels. Moreover, this organization is not for profit.

Financial inequality is the severe problem at this level. The player is struggling for an issue of its basic necessities. The sports activities haven't paid as much as it is needed. The clubs usually not allocated desired budget. At the college level, candidate faces numerous problems like;

No resources: at this level player has limited resources to meet its wants.

No Allowance: any allowance announced by the club like health allowance, conveyance allowance, residential allowances etc.

Time factor: that stage is much diversified in case of student career. Hectic schedule, home works, assignments etc take major times.

Dependent: player is reliant at parents. It's not at independent stage

Social security issue: government or state doesn't assist properly

Health issue: health policy and allowances is not up to the mark.

Health insurance policy is not updated. The nutrition menu, diet plan and exercising coach are not standardized (Fried, et.al, 2011).

The above issues are with all basketball clubs' teams, but more specifically it is normally seen at the collegiate level. More the distribution is based on performance and merit based. The scholarships also offered for those players who performed outclass in matches. At the same time, there is another face of the coin. Association distinguished the financial allocation according to sex. Resources are more allocated to males clubs and tournaments comparatively women's teams and matches. This unfair distribution of Funds disappoints the female's players further.

Professional level: Financial inequality

Let's take professional level and discuss the financial inequality factor. Here at this level in basketball, the professionals are facing little problem related to finance. The sponsorships, media channels, corporate sector investments, supported the professional clubs like the National Basketball Association (NBA). Basically, it is the most excellent men's professional basketball league in North America and is expansively well thought-out to be the leading men's professional basketball league in the world. It has thirty franchised member clubs (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is an vigorous part of USA Basketball (USAB), as the national leading body for basketball in the United States which is recognized by FIBA (also known as the International Basketball Federation). College basketball players play for a school, and attempt to formulate a name for them while via that total cross athletic scholarship to obtain their educations. On the contrary, NBA players already have their profession building 250,000 dollars to an astonishing 25 million dollars depending on the person franchise and the ability of the player. (NBA Media, 2013). Professional players completely missed how they played their sport in between college and the big leagues. The complete vigorous of the game transfers between the levels of the contest, but it's not essentially ...