You are the Athletic Director at Western New York University. The Buffalo News was tipped off that your standout baseball player, James Macaroni, a native of Buffalo, has been receiving cash and gifts from at least one agent during the past season and maybe more in previous years. He has been seen driving around campus in a brand-new Ford Explorer and wearing expensive-looking bling, and you know for a fact that neither he nor his family could ever have purchased these items.
Your high-profile coach, Dan Huntsman, has visions of making his mark so he can coach in MLB someday soon, and he guided the Macaroni-led team to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, where they lost in the final game. This afternoon, a press conference is scheduled where you will have to face members of the press and comment on the allegations.
If in fact Macaroni received these items (in obvious violation of NCAA rules), who shares responsibility here? Macaroni? The agent? Coach Huntsman? The NCAA? Who needs to be held accountable?
If you were a college Athletic Director at a D-1 school with athletes who potentially could go pro, what sort of agent-screening system could you put in place? Who would be involved? What would be the process to help protect and educate athletes about the dangers of dealing with agents?
Put yourself in the shoes of the President of Western New York University. List the steps you would take to assess the employment status and situation of Coach Huntsman.
Well-reasoned, well-written, and insightful papers will get the highest grades. Please make sure that you check your grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.
