
Same Players, Different Game
An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry
- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Same Players, Different Game
An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry
About this book
In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and 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 nonjudgmental 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.
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Table of contents
- Book Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Ivory Towers: A Business Model
- Chapter 2. An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics
- Chapter 3. Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes
- Chapter 4. The Athlete, Not the Enterprise
- Chapter 5. The Doomsday Machine
- Chapter 6. Television Creates a Monster: NCAA’s 1%
- Chapter 7. Some Are More Equal
- Epilogue: Days of Reckoning
- References
- Index