A Beautiful Shame
eBook - PDF

A Beautiful Shame

One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports

  1. 271 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Beautiful Shame

One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports

About this book

The story of one team's final season in a new era of college sports A major shift in college athletics began in 2018. That year, the NCAA launched its transfer portal. NIL would soon follow. Title IX directives were sending athletic departments into compliance crises. Conference realignment rumors swirled. A revolution in college sports proceeded at a rapid pace in just a few short years. In A Beautiful Shame: One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports, Ryan Swanson follows one team's final season to reveal the impact of these reforms in their early days. The University of New Mexico men's soccer team was a nationally prominent program, with a legendary coach, conference titles, top national rankings, NCAA tournament successes, and more Academic All-Americans than any other school in the nation in its sport. Yet, in the summer of 2018, it was announced that the program would be discontinued. Ryan Swanson's behind-the-scenes account reveals how, even with their successes, the Lobos soccer program was not immune to the changes swirling around college sports. This team, this crisis, is indicative of a much broader story playing out across the country. The recent changes to college athletics have put an even greater focus on high-revenue sports, to the detriment of many smaller programs, and A Beautiful Shame provides a deeply personal, firsthand perspective on its impact.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9798765154083
Edition
0
Subtopic
Sport & Exercise Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. The Cast of Characters
  8. Prologue: The Gadfly
  9. Chapter 1: Welcome Back?
  10. Chapter 2: The Last First Game
  11. Chapter 3: Home-Bred and Chile-Fed
  12. Chapter 4: Forty Balls
  13. Chapter 5: The Shame of College Soccer
  14. Chapter 6: $605,630
  15. Chapter 7: A Red Card for Pandering
  16. Chapter 8: Two Big, Bold, Ballsy Moves
  17. Chapter 9: Gallo
  18. Chapter 10: Can We Stay If We Call It Fútbol?
  19. Chapter 11: The Backs-Against-the-Wall Effect
  20. Chapter 12: Is This Purgatory? No, It’s Charlotte
  21. Chapter 13: Saved by the Bill
  22. Afterword
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Index
  26. About the Author