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Unwinding Madness
What Went Wrong with College Sports? and How to Fix It
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2016
Summary
A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sports
Unwinding 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.
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Copyright Year
2016
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3003-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
backcover1
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Preface No access Pages i - 2
How College Sports Lost Its Way I No access Pages 3 - 24
How College Sports Lost Its Way II No access Pages 25 - 52
Academic Integrity No access Pages 53 - 84
Governance No access Pages 85 - 106
Athlete Health and Welfare No access Pages 107 - 142
A Continuing Disgrace: Discrimination Based onGender, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability No access Pages 143 - 196
Th e NCAA’s Unsustainable Economics No access Pages 197 - 208
Two Paths to Meaningful Reform No access Pages 209 - 222
Anchors for Reform: Guidelines and Conclusion No access Pages 223 - 246
