E COLLEGE ATHLETES AND COMMUNITY SERVICE [:] Mark as done Due: Sunday, February 11, 2024, 11:59 PM College Athletic Departments are constantly looking for ways to create a positive public image. One way they can do so is through involving members of the Athletic Department, and particularly student-athletes (SAs), in community service projects. 1. If you were the AD, what might be some approaches your department could use to getting your SAs involved in community service? 1. Who should choose the activity? SAs? Coaches? The AD? A team of people? 2. What types of community organizations would make good partners? 3. How can you get coaches on board to help? 4. When you or a friend of yours was a SA in high school or college, did you (or they) ever do community service? How was the experience? Sometimes coaches use community service projects as punishments for athletes who have broken team rules. The coaching staff for a sport will tell the SA they have to perform a certain number of community service hours in order to make up for their poor behavior. The SA may have no interest whatsoever in really helping the community, just in getting in their hours as mandated. 2. Is requiring someone to do community service an appropriate punishment for breaking team rules? Why or why not? As an alternative, how could the athletes be disciplined? How might a policy help an athlete deal with the struggle of balancing requirements and expectations of academics versus athletics? Write a policy encouraging balance between both components of the term student-athlete. 3. Suppose you are the AD of a large Division | university with teams competing in the NCAA. It has come to your attention that the men's basketball coach has broken a series of recruiting rules in order to attract a 7-foot center to the team. In the end the coach was unsuccessful in recruiting the athlete, but self- disclosure rules still exist in the NCAA. Using the SLEEPE Principle presented in Chapter 2, analyze the situation to help understand each of the ramifications of your decision. In the end, what will you do