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Same players, different game : an examination of the commercial college athletics industry / John C. Barnes.

By: Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xvii, 229 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826361293
  • 9780826361295
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Same Players, Different GameDDC classification:
  • 796.04/30973 23
LOC classification:
  • GV351 .B37 2020
Contents:
Ivory Towers: A Business Model -- An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics -- Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes -- The Athlete, Not the Enterprise -- The Doomsday Machine -- Television Creates a Monster: NCAA's 1% -- Some Are More Equal.
Summary: ""[This book] not only covers historical issues and precedents in the crazy world of commercialized college sports in America, but it also includes a focus on the current and relevant issues of intercollegiate athletics literally as they are happening. . . . This book eloquently covers the issues outside the fields and courts that will shape intercollegiate athletics far into the future and shows how different it may one day look."-B. David Ridpath, author of Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the current state of commercial college athletics as a guide for potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts. Barnes provides an accessible outline of the historical background and potential future of the commercial college athletics industry from a non-judgmental perspective. Same Players, Different Game not only serves as a text and guide for governance and leadership but also as a primer for the economic and political realities of modern college athletics that students and sports fans will find fascinating"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.

Ivory Towers: A Business Model -- An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics -- Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes -- The Athlete, Not the Enterprise -- The Doomsday Machine -- Television Creates a Monster: NCAA's 1% -- Some Are More Equal.

""[This book] not only covers historical issues and precedents in the crazy world of commercialized college sports in America, but it also includes a focus on the current and relevant issues of intercollegiate athletics literally as they are happening. . . . This book eloquently covers the issues outside the fields and courts that will shape intercollegiate athletics far into the future and shows how different it may one day look."-B. David Ridpath, author of Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the current state of commercial college athletics as a guide for potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts. Barnes provides an accessible outline of the historical background and potential future of the commercial college athletics industry from a non-judgmental perspective. Same Players, Different Game not only serves as a text and guide for governance and leadership but also as a primer for the economic and political realities of modern college athletics that students and sports fans will find fascinating"-- Provided by publisher.

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