Whither College Sports

ANDREW ZIMBALIST is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the author of twenty-eight books, including books on college sports, baseball, the Olympics, and Title IX.  

Introduction

Section 1: Academic Papers

1. Taxation of College Sports: Policies and Controversies

Andrew Zimbalist

2. Reforming College Sports: The Case for a Limited and Conditional Antitrust Exemption

Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist

3. A Win Win: College Athletes get Paid for their Names, Images, and Likenesses and Colleges Maintain the Primacy of Academics

Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist

4. The Impact of College Athletic Success on Donations and Applicant Quality

Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist

Section 2: Position Papers by Drake Group

1. The ‘Big Five’ Power Grab: The Real Threat to College Sports

Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist

2. Why the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) and the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) should be Abandoned and Replaced with More Effective Academic Metrics

Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, Mary Willingham, Jayma Meyer, Brian Porto, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, and Andrew Zimbalist    

3. Fixing the Dysfunctional NCAA Enforcement System 

Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist

4. College Athlete Health and Protection from Physical and Psychological Harm

Donna Lopiano, Janet Blade, Gerald Gurney, Sheila Hudson, Brian Porto, Allen Sack, David Ridpath and Andrew Zimbalist 

5. Compensation of College Athletes Including Revenues Earned from Commercial Use of Their Names, Images and Likenesses and Outside Employment

Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Julie Sommer, Mary Willingham & Andrew Zimbalist

Section 3: Op Eds

1. Unionizing Is Proof That College Athletics Need to Be Reformed

Andrew Zimbalist

2. College Coaches’ Salaries and Higher Education

Andrew Zimbalist

3. Time for a Presidential Panel to Investigate College Sports

Andrew Zimbalist

4. Paying College Athletes: Take Two

Andrew Zimbalist

5.Antitrust Exemption may aid College Sports’ Untenable Situation

Andrew Zimbalist

6. The N.C.A.A.’s Women Problem

Andrew Zimbalist

7. Big-Time College Basketball in the Cross Hairs

Andrew Zimbalist

8. In The End, Commission's Reform Suggestions Only Provide A Smokescreen Of Legitimacy For The NCAA

Andrew Zimbalist

9. One and Done: Take Two

Andrew Zimbalist

10. How Financial Pressures Can Lead to Athletic Scandals

Andrew Zimbalist 

11. Female Athletes Are Undervalued, In Both Money and Media Terms

Carrie N. Baker, Emma Seymour and Andrew Zimbalist

12. The Collegiate Sports Model Is Broken: It Needs Help

Andrew Zimbalist

13. Sports Being on Hiatus Gives the NCAA an Opportunity to Rethink the Structure of College Sports

Andrew Zimbalist, Gerry Gurney and Donna Lopiano

14. Has Higher Education Lost Its Mind?

Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist

15. Theater of the Absurd and the Immoral: College Football 2020

Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist

16. Rutgers’ Athletics Deficit Reveals the Hidden Caste In The College Sports Hierarchy

Andrew Zimbalist

Index