Zach Payne
12/3/13
M. Artime
CORE 350 Final Paper
As a business management major at Whitworth I have decided to put my degree to
different use, taking advantage of the management and leadership skills I have studied and
learned over the past 4 years I have become a college basketball coach. This is a career
path that I have actually started here at Whitworth and look forward to continuing to help
improve our men’s basketball program after graduation.
As much as people would like to not believe it, politics can play an extremely major role in
collegiate athletics and is much more impure than the casual viewer recognizes. Due to
this, even at the Division 3 level which Whitworth participates at their can be many ethical
or policy issues that arise throughout any given season. However, one problem that arises
while working in any athletic department is the distribution of resources and profits. It is
no secret that there are certain sports at our university that attract more people to their
games, raise more money, receive larger donations, and generate more support from the
campus community. The problem is whether athletic teams that do bring more money
should have to distribute that revenue equally. When looking at the treatment of this social
tension issue through what we’ve studied in CORE we could take either an approach for
the Common Good or Individual Good. The common good would suggest dividing up the
money would bring the greatest possible outcome to maximum amount of teams. However,
