pt. I: Football and the 1960s. From the sidelines of a football revolution ; College football in black and white, Part I: Integrating the Southeastern Conference ; College football in black and white, Part II: Black protest -- Interlude 1973: The NCAA goes pro -- pt. II: Living with a contradiction. Revenue and reform ; Opportunity, entitlement, and exploitation ; Thinking about reform
Summary
Former college and professional football player Oriard explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. He gives close attention to decisions by the NCAA in the early 1970s that helped transform student-athletes into athlete-students and turned the college game into a virtual farm league for professional football. The relentless necessity to pursue revenue, he argues, undermines attempts to maintain academic standards, and it fosters a football culture in which athletes are both excessively entitled and exploited
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed June 30, 2021)
