Whither College Sports: Amateurism, Athlete Safety, and Academic Integrity

By: Andrew Zimbalist

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Synopsis: 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 (NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision) 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 388 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781978828155
Related ISBNs:: 9781978828131, 9781978828148
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/12/21
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey For sources to previously published material please see first page of each essay.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Sports, Health, Mind and Body, Business and Finance, Education
Grade Levels:: College Freshman
Reading Age:: 18 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.