Bowled over :: big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era /

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 athl...

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1. Verfasser: Oriard, Michael, 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780807898659
0807898651
9781469605302
1469605309

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