Ethical Issues In Collegiate Football

Collegiate football is a rapidly growing business that influences culture, participants and spectators. The role of National College Athletic Association (NCAA) is to ensure that all teams follow the instructions of the game and hold high standards of established moral and ethical code of conduct and ethics. NCCA failed to prevent the scandals at the University of Arkansas, Ohio State, and Penn State (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 2016). In Penn state, NCAA failed to protect the interest of all the stakeholders and the misconduct that occurred of sexual assaults of eight young boys for many years by a former assistant coach. In Ohio state scandal, NCAA were not aware for nine months for student athletes and subsequent cover by the coach for receiving benefits and supply for cash and tattoos. In University of Arkansa, NCAA failed to notice early the questionable behaviors of coach Petrino who had conflict of interest that he did not disclose and the university favored winning games over ethical behavior (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 2016).
The universities, football program, and authorities cover ethical violations
NCAA can used questionnaire tools to get information from students e.g. sexual violence and other critical issues that can be covered by the school. In addition, NCAA needs to revise its policies and rules to accommodate a wide range of issues that affect ethical conduct of football programs. The human resource department of universities and colleges should assess the previous behaviors of coaches before recruitment them and the schools should help NCAA enforce standards of conduct by establishing systems of compliance and control to promote ethical conduct in collegiate football programs (Baugh et al.,