Billion-dollar ball
Gilbert M. Gaul
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Billion-dollar ball
Published
Sep 06, 2016
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9780143108634
ISBN-10
0143108638
Description
"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.
Subjects
NCAA basketball
Index, National Collegiate Athletic Association interpretations, 1980-1981
Enforcement program of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Constitution & by-laws, executive regulations, interpretations - 1962
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the courts
Official NCAA Basketball Record and Fact Book, 1993
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages are in Billion-dollar ball?
This edition of Billion-dollar ball has approximately 288 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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Who is the author of Billion-dollar ball?
Billion-dollar ball was written by Gilbert M. Gaul.
When was Billion-dollar ball published?
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