2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for Adventure, Sports & Recreation
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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. Ivory Towers: A Business Model
Chapter Two. An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics
Chapter Three. Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes
Chapter Four. The Athlete, Not the Enterprise
Chapter Five. The Doomsday Machine
Chapter Six. Television Creates a Monster: NCAA's 1%
Chapter Seven. Some Are More Equal
Afterword
References
Index
