Same Players, Different Game
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Same Players, Different Game

An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

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

  1. Book Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1. Ivory Towers: A Business Model
  10. Chapter 2. An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics
  11. Chapter 3. Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes
  12. Chapter 4. The Athlete, Not the Enterprise
  13. Chapter 5. The Doomsday Machine
  14. Chapter 6. Television Creates a Monster: NCAA’s 1%
  15. Chapter 7. Some Are More Equal
  16. Epilogue: Days of Reckoning
  17. References
  18. Index