SOP you about a fantastic Tuesday morning.

And this morning with this extra news video,

we're going to do something a little bit different.

We're going to look at college sports in the NCAA,

and we are also going to shine a light on some pretty horrific stuff

going on in college athletics.

Millions of young Americans imagine themselves playing professional sports,

but even if you have the talent and the determination to make it,

there's basically just one road.

Go to college and play in the NCAA.

Since 2006, which was the last year basketball players could declare for the

NBA draft out of high school only three US-born basketball and football athletes have been

drafted to the pros without playing in college and playing in college for over

four hundred sixty thousand student athletes also means playing

for the NCAA for those who don't know the NCAA is a collection of schools

across the country that work together to create the framework of rules for

competition and student athletes have to follow these rules if they want to play

in some of the best divisions in the country.

And the NCAA takes their rules very seriously.

NCAA's Division 1 manual for the 2017 2018 season is 428 pages long.

And of those pages, 356 are made up of bylaws and these bylaws are aimed at two things

keeping play fair and maintaining quote amateurism in college sports under the rules of amateurism

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