Unwinding Madness (eBook)

What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It

Gerald S. Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, Andrew Zimbalist (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
320 Seiten
Brookings Institution Press (Verlag)
978-0-8157-3003-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sportsUnwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athleticsand why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to protect the academic primacy, health and well-being of college athletes and fallen into an educational, ethical, and economic crisis.As long as intercollegiate athletics reside in the higher education environment, these programs must be academically compatible with their larger institutions, subordinate to their educational mission, and defensible from a not-for-profit organizational standpoint. The issue has never been a matter of whether intercollegiate athletics belongs in higher education as an extracurricular offering. Rather, the perennial challenge has been how these programs have been governed and conducted.The authors propose detailed solutions, starting with the creation of a new national governance organization to replace the NCAA. At the college level, these proposals will not diminish the revenue production capacity of sports programs but will restore academic integrity to the enterprise, provide fairer treatment of college athletes with better health protections, and restore the rights and freedoms of athletes, which have been taken away by a professionalized athletics mentality that controls the cost of its athlete labor force and overpays coaches and athletic directors.Unwinding Madness recognizes that there is no easy fix to the problems now facing college athletics. But the book does offer common sense, doable solutions that respect the rights of athletes, protects their health and well-being while delivering on the promise of a bona fide educational degree program.

Autor

Gerald Gurney is assistant professor of education at the University of Oklahoma and a past president of both the Drake Group and the National Association of Academic Advisers for Athletics.Donna A. Lopiano is the president of Sports Management Resources, a consulting firm, and an adjunct lecturer in sports management at Southern Connecticut State University.Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College and a noted sports economist and sports industry consultant.

Inhalt

Contents:PrefacePart I: Lessons of History1. How College Sports Lost Its Way I2. How College Sports Lost Its Way IIPart II: What Needs to be Fixed3. Academic Integrity4. Governance5. Athlete Health and Welfare6. A Continuing Disgrace: Discrimination Based on Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability7. The NCAA’s Unsustainable EconomicsPart III: A Return to Sanity8. Two Paths to Meaningful Reform9. Anchors for Reform: Guidelines and ConclusionAppendixNotesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Andrew Zimbalist • college athletes • College Athletics • College Coaches Salaries • college fo • College Football • college football books • college football history • college football history books • college sports • Corruption in Sports • Donna A. Lopiano • Economics of Sports • Gerald Gurney • history of sports in america • March Madness • NCAA • ncaa basketball history • ncaa championships • racism in sports • sociology of sports • student athletes • Title Nine • Unwinding Madness • women in sports
• ISBN-10: 0-8157-3003-9 / 0815730039
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-3003-3 / 9780815730033