Dr. Harry Edwards on NCAAs: Stop the Madness of March
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
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đď¸ 16 March 2016
âąď¸ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. |
| 0:06.1 | We have such an amazing show this week. This is our NCAA show, but it's less about March |
| 0:11.8 | madness than about how to stop the madness of March. We are going to speak to the most |
| 0:16.5 | prominent sports sociologists to ever walk the earth. The author of the seminal 1969 text, Revolt of the Black Athlete, Dr. Harry Edwards. |
| 0:29.1 | What are the immediate reforms that you put your pen to to make the system a little more just? |
| 0:34.4 | Well, the first thing I would do is to disband the NCAA. |
| 0:41.9 | Some situations are so corrupt. |
| 0:50.8 | I think that some institutional structures are so hard-bound and dysfunctional that you have to dismantle them and begin over. I don't think that it's appropriate for the Super 5 conferences and all of the money that |
| 1:00.8 | they generate to operate under the same auspices as Division 3 schools or even mid-majors, |
| 1:09.4 | which oftentimes struggle to maintain and sustain athletic programs |
| 1:15.0 | that service the entire student body and campus communities, not just in so-called revenue-producing sports, |
| 1:22.6 | but in so-called minor men's sports and most certainly women's sports. I think that we need a brand new |
| 1:28.6 | organization that actually operates under the auspices of laws instead of, quote, |
| 1:36.3 | regulations that are put in place largely to serve the organization itself instead of the |
| 1:42.1 | student athletes or even the institution. |
| 1:44.7 | If you look at some of the history of how some institutions have been treated, it's tragic. |
| 1:49.7 | The NC2A needs to be dismantled. |
| 1:52.1 | They are running, as I stated in 1967, a plantation structure of organization that serves no one really except them and to some extent the major |
| 2:05.8 | institutions that constitute their constituency. I know that Walter Byers, who called me |
| 2:13.2 | a black militant agitator when I charged NC2 with operating a plantation structure and his |
| 2:18.9 | 1995 memoir called it exactly that a plantation structure of organization we have Taylor branch |
| 2:26.9 | who wrote a piece for the Atlantic saying that the NC2A carries the whiff of the plantation system, and all of a sudden he was, |
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