Bowled over [electronic resource] : big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era / Michael Oriard.
Oriard, Michael, 1948-
2009
GV950 .O7 2009eb
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Title Bowled over [electronic resource] : big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era / Michael Oriard.
Author Oriard, Michael, 1948-
ISBN 9780807898659 (electronic bo ok)
9780807833292
Publication Details Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (334 p.) : ill.
Call Number GV950 .O7 2009eb
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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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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