Billion-dollar ball : a journey through the big-money culture of college football / Gilbert M. Gaul.
2015
GV959 .G385 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Billion-dollar ball : a journey through the big-money culture of college football / Gilbert M. Gaul.
Author
Gaul, Gilbert M., author.
ISBN
9780670016730 (hardcover)
067001673X (hardcover)
067001673X (hardcover)
Published
New York, New York : Viking, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xix, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
GV959 .G385 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.332/63
Summary
"Over the past decade college football has not only doubled in size, but its elite programs have become a $2.5-billion-a-year entertainment business ... . In most cases, those windfalls are not passed on to the universities themselves, but flow directly back into their athletic departments. College presidents have been unwilling or powerless to stop a system that has spawned a wildly profligate infrastructure of coaches, trainers, marketing gurus, and a growing cadre of bureaucrats whose sole purpose is to ensure that players remain academically eligible to play. ... What are the consequences when college football coaches are the highest paid public employees in over half the states in an economically troubled country, or when football players at some schools receive ten times the amount of scholarship awards that academically gifted students do? Billion-Dollar Ball considers ... how an astonishingly wealthy sports franchise has begun to reframe campus values and distort the fundamental academic mission of our universities."--From publisher description.
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
Preface: Real University
Gilded age of college football
Unlikely charity known as college football
Return on investment: the art of paying a coach $23 million not to coach
Walking with Mr Baldwin: in the land of accidental students
Why the south lost the war but wins at football
How women's rowing saved college football: working the bar scene for recruits
To have and have not: how college presidents fumbled reform
Epilogue: Death star
Note on sources
Acknowledgments
Index.
Gilded age of college football
Unlikely charity known as college football
Return on investment: the art of paying a coach $23 million not to coach
Walking with Mr Baldwin: in the land of accidental students
Why the south lost the war but wins at football
How women's rowing saved college football: working the bar scene for recruits
To have and have not: how college presidents fumbled reform
Epilogue: Death star
Note on sources
Acknowledgments
Index.