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The Cost of Winning
An Insider's Perspective on Exploitation and Greed in College Sports
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eBook - PDF
The Cost of Winning
An Insider's Perspective on Exploitation and Greed in College Sports
About this book
An unapologetic insider's account of the corruption and greed within college athletics.
College sports may have begun as a benign attraction, but it has since morphed into quasi-professional athletic leagues that exploit higher education, taxpayers, and students. A foremost expert in ethics in intercollegiate athletics, Dr. Gerald Gurney spent his career fighting the greed, collusion, and corruption among college presidents, athletic directors, and coaches, playing a pivotal role in the movement for athlete well-being and academic integrity.
The Cost of Winning: An Insider's Perspective on Exploitation and Greed in College Sports is Dr. Gurney's candid memoir, covering his 40-plus years working directly with athletes as they struggled to achieve the dream of a meaningful college degree and a chance at a professional athletic career. He saw firsthand the exploitation of these athletes and the blatant disregard for their education, even as universities touted the educational and character-building values of intercollegiate athletics. Dr. Gurney reveals how academic fraud works at too many NCAA Division I institutions, the lengths individuals and entire programs will go to in order to win, and the unsustainable path in athletic spending.
More than a memoir, The Cost of Winning is an honest, brave, and fascinating account of some of the most remarkable triumphs and disasters in college sports history—an unapologetic depiction of the well-sheltered inner workings of major college athletic programs and prospects for change.
College sports may have begun as a benign attraction, but it has since morphed into quasi-professional athletic leagues that exploit higher education, taxpayers, and students. A foremost expert in ethics in intercollegiate athletics, Dr. Gerald Gurney spent his career fighting the greed, collusion, and corruption among college presidents, athletic directors, and coaches, playing a pivotal role in the movement for athlete well-being and academic integrity.
The Cost of Winning: An Insider's Perspective on Exploitation and Greed in College Sports is Dr. Gurney's candid memoir, covering his 40-plus years working directly with athletes as they struggled to achieve the dream of a meaningful college degree and a chance at a professional athletic career. He saw firsthand the exploitation of these athletes and the blatant disregard for their education, even as universities touted the educational and character-building values of intercollegiate athletics. Dr. Gurney reveals how academic fraud works at too many NCAA Division I institutions, the lengths individuals and entire programs will go to in order to win, and the unsustainable path in athletic spending.
More than a memoir, The Cost of Winning is an honest, brave, and fascinating account of some of the most remarkable triumphs and disasters in college sports history—an unapologetic depiction of the well-sheltered inner workings of major college athletic programs and prospects for change.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One Athletics Is No Career for a Nice Jewish Boy
- Two Iowa State University
- Three Southern Methodist University
- Four University of Maryland
- Five Oklahoma’s Post-Switzer Era
- Six The Football Messiah Arrives
- Seven The College Sports Arms Race
- Eight The Great Magical Myth of Coaching
- Nine The “Educational Experience”
- Ten The Epiphany
- Eleven The Athletic Trinity
- Twelve Winners and Losers
- Thirteen The Prospects for Change in Big-Time College Sports
- Fourteen Oklahoma Heisman Winners and Other Greats
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author’s Works
- Index
- About the Author and Contributors