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Same Players, Different Game
An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for Adventure, Sports & Recreation
In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts. Barnes provides an accessible outline of the historical background and potential future of the commercial college athletics industry from a nonjudgmental perspective. Same Players, Different Game not only serves as a text and guide for governance and leadership but also as a primer for the economic and political realities of modern college athletics that students and sports fans will find fascinating.
In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts. Barnes provides an accessible outline of the historical background and potential future of the commercial college athletics industry from a nonjudgmental perspective. Same Players, Different Game not only serves as a text and guide for governance and leadership but also as a primer for the economic and political realities of modern college athletics that students and sports fans will find fascinating.
Product Details
- Publisher: UNM Press (April 15, 2025)
- Length: 248 pages
- ISBN13: 9780826368003
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Dives deep into the large maze that is college sport. . . . This book contributes critical assistance in understanding what the NCAA was and is.--Braden Norris, International Journal of Sport Communication
A comprehensive look at modern college athletics and topics ranging from Title IX rules to TV contracts.--Kody Timmers, Sports Business Journal
A comprehensive look at modern college athletics and topics ranging from Title IX rules to TV contracts.--Kody Timmers, Sports Business Journal
[This book] not only covers historical issues and precedents in the crazy world of commercialized college sports in America, but it also includes a focus on the current and relevant issues of intercollegiate athletics literally as they are happening. . . . This book eloquently covers the issues outside the fields and courts that will shape intercollegiate athletics far into the future and shows how different it may one day look.--B. David Ridpath, author of Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice
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