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Summary:

"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"-- [Provided by publisher]
"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:

• The "accidental industry" : the NCAA and the myth of the amateur athlete
• The big gamble : peddling college on the front porch of D-I sports
• You play, we profit : the exploitation of college athletes
• The D-I rap sheet : point shavers, sexual predators, escorts, and cheats
• Take the money and run : carpetbagger coaches and recruiting ruses
• Good ol' boys' club : the NCAA's fight against minorities and women
• No contest : sports rout academics
• Cheating to make the grade : keeping athletes eligible
• Exercises in futility : reforming the unreformable NCAA
• On defense : pom-pom presidents, booster boards, NCAA bureaucrats, and the status quo
• A new game plan : free market campus sports, the American way
• Student-athletes for sale : making millions on NIL deals.

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Sheldon R., 1951- , 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.R.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Schools for scandal [by Anderson, S.R.] (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2024] — ISBN 9780826275028; LCCN 2023045915)

Related Series:

Sports and American culture series

Subjects:

National Collegiate Athletic Association — Division I.

College sports — United States — Management

College sports — Moral and ethical aspects — United States

Education, Higher — Aims and objectives — United States

College athletes — United States

National Collegiate Athletic Association

College sports — Management

College sports

College sports — Moral and ethical aspects

Education, Higher — Aims and objectives

Education, Higher

College athletes

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 294 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GV351 .A64 2024

ISBNs:

9780826223081 (hardcover)
0826223087
9780826275028 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023045914

OCLC Numbers:

1399165629