Current and Former Players Call Out NCAA’s Student-Athlete Commercial
Written by SOURCE on March 20, 2019
For the duration of the NCAA Tournament you can expect to see this commercial put together by DeVry the NCAA showing their idealized depiction of dual-life as both a student and athlete:
Taking exception with this ad were a number of student-athletes who would appear to be calling its accuracy into question:
If you want to dig deeper into to the topic, there’s the LeBron James-executive produced HBO documentary Student Athlete. “This is an incredibly important story about the institutional denial of basic human rights for these student-athletes,” Maverick Carter said about the doc. “When Steve Stoute [at United Masters] brought us this idea, it was a perfect fit for the kind of stories we want to tell at SpringHill.” Watch it over on HBO.
Melo on student athletes getting paid: “NCAA and amateur sports [have] been corrupt for so long” pic.twitter.com/wtOAPcCnzB
— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) February 27, 2018
