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Summary:

For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education.This book chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA's attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the student-athlete, along with the attendant fiction that the players' academic achievement is the top priority of Division-I athletic programs. It is an indictment of the current system, making the case that big-time college sports cannot continue its connection to universities without undermining the mission of higher education. It concludes with bold proposals to separate big-time college sports from the university, transforming them into on-campus business operations. -- Provided by publisher

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter One : The "Accidental Industry" : The NCAA and the Myth of the Amateur Athlete
• Chapter Two : The Big Gamble : Peddling College on the Front Porch of D-I Sports
• Chapter Three : You Play, We Profit : The Exploitation of College Athletes
• Chapter Four : The D-I Rap Sheet : Point Shavers, Sexual Predators, Escorts, and Cheats
• Chapter Five : Take the Money and Run : Carpetbagger Coaches and Recruiting Ruses
• Chapter Six : Good Ol' Boys' Club : The NCAA's Fight Against Minorities and Women
• Chapter Seven : No Contest : Sports Rout Academics
• Chapter Eight : Cheating to Make the Grade : Keeping Athletes Eligible
• Chapter Nine : Exercises in Futility : Reforming the Unreformable NCAA
• Chapter Ten : On Defense : Pom-Pom Presidents, Booster Boards, NCAA Bureaucrats, and the Status Quo
• Chapter Eleven : A New Game Plan : Free Market Campus Sports, the American Way
• Chapter Twelve : Student-Athletes for Sale : Making Millions on NIL Deals
• Afterword

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Sheldon , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Schools for scandal: the dysfunctional marriage of Division I sports and higher education [by Anderson, S.]

Related Series:

Sports and American culture

Subjects:

National Collegiate Athletic Association

College sports — United States

College athletes — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 283-288) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV351 .A53 2024

ISBNs:

9780826275028 (electronic book)
0826275028 (electronic book)
9780826223081 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1430952050

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31281396 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306350746