Professional sport scouts
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Colleges and professional sports teams alike pay coaches and scouts to find a certain number of players each year for sports teams. College coaches try to find likely prospects to add to their roster and perhaps to catch the eye of the public in a way that redounds to the credit of the school. Professional scouts watch players in college in an attempt to find those who could make the leap from amateur to professional sports. There are rules by which both types of scouts have to live, and the players as well have to follow certain rules as they decide what college to attend or what team to join. Questions are often raised as to the ethics of certain practices undertaken by coaches or scouts, but all in all the system seems to work. At the same time, those with prospects for recruitment need to be careful because there are a number of traps involved which they need to note and avoid. The systems of recruiting for college athletics and professional sports have developed over time and have also been much criticized for perceived ethical lapses. The recruitment process is an outgrowth of developments beginning over a century ago as American intercollegiate sports developed and changed over time. This has involved a major change in the way sports itself is viewed in the college setting: Among gentleman, prior to 1820, there was a general contempt for physical prowess. It was a contempt in keeping with prevailing English attitudes toward frivolit
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l football, 39,000 will play college ball, 1,500 will make the professional recruitment list, 500 will be drafted, but less than 100 will make it in professional football. . . The obvious answer is for coaches to insist that players obtain another option--a degree (Worsnop, 1994, 748-749).
This has been one of the major concerns for critics of the current system, that it creates undue expectations and that it neglects the primary need of each athlete to gain an education and to be prepared for the working world, in or out of professional sports. Some critics also state that the situation breeds cynicism among athletes, and one such critic is Representative Cardiss Collins, Democrat from Illinois, who noted recently,
How can one explain to the athlete, who is attending ... practices, flying back and forth across the nation in tournaments, watching the coach cut lucrative deals with a shoe company, that this is amateur sports and that the acceptance of a pair of shoes is illegal? . . . How can we set one set of rules for the coaches and administrators and a different set of rules for the student? (Worsnop, 1994, 749).
The high school athlete who can play in college has already beaten the 50 to 1 odds against his playing in col
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