Bowled over [electronic resource] : big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era / Michael Oriard.

9780807898659 (electronic bo ok)
9780807833292

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

English

1 online resource (334 p.) : ill.

GV950 .O7 2009eb

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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