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When California passed the Fair Pay to Play Act, the NCAA’s authority over Black student-athletes was directly challenged. Not only are the NCAA's rules denying Black athletes fair compensation, they're robbing student-athletes of a chance to get a degree. And because of the demands the NCAA puts on Black athletes to generate revenue, many find it impossible to earn a degree while they play.

Because of rigorous practice and game schedules, student-athletes cannot work while under scholarship. Under the NCAA’s current rules, college players can’t profit from their own image or likeness. We can’t leave it up to the NCAA to create fair rules for student-athletes.ĭemand congressional legislation to end the exploitation of Black student-athletes across the country! The scrutiny over student-athlete finances will only increase as the players are exposed to more economic opportunity, as seen in the cases of James Wiseman and Chase Young. But because this is the NCAA, we know there will be arbitrary limitations for how and when players can earn and spend their own money. The NCAA recently succumbed to national pressure to allow athletes to earn money from the use of their names, images, and likenesses. Yet NCAA is criminalizing Chase Young and James Wiseman over thousand-dollar transactions meant to help their families.

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The NCAA signed a TV deal with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting to air its March Madness tournament that will make them a billion dollars a year. The dollar amount of Chase Young’s airfare and James Wiseman’s family support is miniscule when compared to the billions NCAA will make off of these athletes this season. But because of this, the NCAA started an investigation and is blocking him from playing. Wiseman’s then high school coach, Penny Hardaway helped pay for him and his family to relocate to a better high school. In Memphis, the NCAA is sabotaging basketball star, James Wiseman, for the financial support that his family was given, without his knowledge, when he was in high school. But the NCAA put Young under investigation, and suspended him two games, forcing him to sit out of games that jeopardized his chances of winning the Heisman trophy. He had to borrow money from a family friend to pay for airfare for his family to travel for the game, and he paid the family friend back. Last year, Chase Young, a star defensive football player for the Ohio Buckeyes, sought after his dream of having his family see him play in one of the biggest football events of the year, The Rosebowl. The NCAA continues to criminalize Black student-athletes for not having money.