Intercollegiate athletics is under assault from all sides. Its economic model is yielding increasing and unsustainable deficits and widening inequality. Coaches and athletic directors are the highest paid employees at FBS universities (NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision) by factors of five to ten, or more. Athletes are being cheated on their promised education, do not receive adequate medical care, and are not allowed to receive cash income. Substantial change, either toward reasserting the intended primacy of education for intercollegiate athletes or a further surrender to commercialism, is coming. This book lays out the starkly different paths that college sports reform can follow and what the ramifications will be on the athletes and on the institutions in which they are enrolled.
Introduction
Section 1: Academic Papers
1. Taxation of College Sports: Policies and Controversies
Andrew Zimbalist
2. Reforming College Sports: The Case for a Limited and Conditional Antitrust Exemption
Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist
3. A Win Win: College Athletes get Paid for their Names, Images, and Likenesses and Colleges Maintain the Primacy of Academics
Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist
4. The Impact of College Athletic Success on Donations and Applicant Quality
Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist
Section 2: Position Papers by Drake Group
1. The ‘Big Five’ Power Grab: The Real Threat to College Sports
Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist
2. Why the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) and the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) should be Abandoned and Replaced with More Effective Academic Metrics
Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, Mary Willingham, Jayma Meyer, Brian Porto, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, and Andrew Zimbalist
3. Fixing the Dysfunctional NCAA Enforcement System
Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist
4. College Athlete Health and Protection from Physical and Psychological Harm
Donna Lopiano, Janet Blade, Gerald Gurney, Sheila Hudson, Brian Porto, Allen Sack, David Ridpath and Andrew Zimbalist
5. Compensation of College Athletes Including Revenues Earned from Commercial Use of Their Names, Images and Likenesses and Outside Employment
Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Julie Sommer, Mary Willingham & Andrew Zimbalist
Section 3: Op Eds
1. Unionizing Is Proof That College Athletics Need to Be Reformed
Andrew Zimbalist
2. College Coaches’ Salaries and Higher Education
Andrew Zimbalist
3. Time for a Presidential Panel to Investigate College Sports
Andrew Zimbalist
4. Paying College Athletes: Take Two
Andrew Zimbalist
5.Antitrust Exemption may aid College Sports’ Untenable Situation
Andrew Zimbalist
6. The N.C.A.A.’s Women Problem
Andrew Zimbalist
7. Big-Time College Basketball in the Cross Hairs
Andrew Zimbalist
8. In The End, Commission's Reform Suggestions Only Provide A Smokescreen Of Legitimacy For The NCAA
Andrew Zimbalist
9. One and Done: Take Two
Andrew Zimbalist
10. How Financial Pressures Can Lead to Athletic Scandals
Andrew Zimbalist
11. Female Athletes Are Undervalued, In Both Money and Media Terms
Carrie N. Baker, Emma Seymour and Andrew Zimbalist
12. The Collegiate Sports Model Is Broken: It Needs Help
Andrew Zimbalist
13. Sports Being on Hiatus Gives the NCAA an Opportunity to Rethink the Structure of College Sports
Andrew Zimbalist, Gerry Gurney and Donna Lopiano
14. Has Higher Education Lost Its Mind?
Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist
15. Theater of the Absurd and the Immoral: College Football 2020
Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist
16. Rutgers’ Athletics Deficit Reveals the Hidden Caste In The College Sports Hierarchy
Andrew Zimbalist
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