Whither college sports [electronic resource] : amateurism, athlete safety, and academic integrity / Andrew Zimbalist
- Author
- Zimbalist, Andrew S.
- Published
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
- Physical Description
- pages cm
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- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I : academic papers -- Taxation of college sports : policies and controversies / Andrew Zimbalist -- Reforming college sports : the case for a limited and conditional antitrust exemption / Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist -- A win win : college athletes get paid for their names, images, and likenesses and colleges maintain the primacy of academics / Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist -- The impact of college athletic success on donations and applicant quality / Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist -- Part II : position papers by the Drake group -- The "big five" power grab : the real threat to college sports / Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist -- Why the NCAA academic progress rate (APR) and the graduation success rate (GSR) should be abandoned and replaced with more effective academic metrics / Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, Mary Willingham, Jayma Meyer, Brian Porto, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, and Andrew Zimbalist -- Fixing the dysfunctional NCAA enforcement system / Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist -- College athlete health and protection from physical and psychological harm / Donna Lopiano, Janet Blade, Gerald Gurney, Sheila Hudson, Brian Porto, Allen Sack, David Ridpath and Andrew Zimbalist -- Compensation of college athletes including revenues earned from commercial use of their names, images,and likenesses and outside employment / Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Julie Sommer, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist -- Part III : op-eds -- Unionizing is proof that college athletics need to be reformed / Andrew Zimbalist -- College coaches' salaries and higher education / Andrew Zimbalist -- Time for a presidential panel to investigate college sports / Andrew Zimbalist -- Paying college athletes : take two / Andrew Zimbalist -- Antitrust exemption may aid college sports' untenable situation / Andrew Zimbalist -- The NCAA's women problem / Andrew Zimbalist -- Big-time college basketball in the cross hairs / Andrew Zimbalist -- In the end, commission's reform suggestions only provide a smokescreen of legitimacy for the NCAA / Andrew Zimbalist -- One and done : take two / Andrew Zimbalist -- How financial pressures can lead to athletic scandals / Andrew Zimbalist -- Female athletes are undervalued, in both money and media terms / Carrie N. Baker, Emma Seymour,and Andrew Zimbalist -- The collegiate sports model Is broken : it needs help / Andrew Zimbalist -- Sports being on hiatus gives the NCAA an opportunity to rethink the structure of college sports / Andrew Zimbalist, Gerry Gurney,and Donna Lopiano -- Has higher education lost Its mind? / Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist -- Theater of the absurd and the immoral : college football 2020 / Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist -- Rutgers' athletics deficit reveals the hidden caste in the college sports hierarchy / Andrew Zimbalist.
- Summary
- "Intercollegiate athletics is under assault from all sides. Its economic model is yielding increasing and unsustainable deficits and widening inequality. Coaches and athletic directors are the highest paid employees at FBS universities by factors of five to ten, or more. Athletes are being cheated on their promised education, do not receive adequate medical care and are not allowed to receive cash income. Substantial change, either toward reasserting the intended primacy of education for intercollegiate athletes or a further surrender to commercialism, is coming. This book lays out the starkly different paths that college sports reform can follow and what the ramifications will be on the athletes and on the institutions in which they are enrolled"--
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- ISBN
- 9781978828131 (paperback)
9781978828148 (cloth)
9781978828155 (epub)
9781978828162 (pdf) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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