Provides a wealth of insights that will generate significant discussion about the policies necessary to sustain the vitality and integrity of the university education-sports coalition.
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Economics of College Sports: An Overview by John Fizel and Rodney
Fort
Structure College Sports and the University Mission
The 1997 Restructuring of the NCAA: A Transactions Cost Explanation
by Joel Maxcy
The Impact on Higher Education of Corruption in Big-Time College
Sports by Paul Staudohar and Barry Zepel
Motivating College Athletics by Evan Osborne
Financial Returns to College Sports
Effects of University Athletics on the University: A Review and
Extension of Empirical Assessment by Brian Goff
Why do U.S. Colleges have Sports Programs? by Robert Sandy and
Peter Sloane
An Economic Slam Dunk or March Madness? Assessing the Economic
Impact of the NCAA Basketball Tournament by Robert A. Baade and
Victor A. Matheson
Labor Issues in College Sports
College Football and Title IX by Michael A. Leeds, Yelena Suris,
and Jennifer Durkin
Measufing Marginal Revenue Product in College Athletics: Updated
Estimates by Robert W. Brown and R. Todd Jewel
Participation in Collegiate Athletics and Academic Performance by
John Fizel and Timothy Smaby
Managerial Efficiency, Managerial Succession, and Organizational
Performance by John L. Fizel and Michael P. D'Itri
Competitive Balance in College Sports
Institutional Change in the NCAA and Competitive Balance in
Intercollegiate Football by Craig A. Depken,II and Dennis P
Wilson
Is There a Short Supply of Tall People in the College Game? by
David J. Berri
The Impact of Cartel Enforcement in Divisiion I-A Football by Craig
A. Depken,II and Dennis P. Wilson
Index
About the Contributors
JOHN FIZEL is Professor of Economics and Chair of the iMBA
program at Penn State University. He conducts research in applied
microeconomic topics that have included online auctions, nursing
home efficiency, and the economics of sports. He is co-editor of
Baseball Economics (Praeger, 1996) and Sports Economics (Praeger,
1999).
RODNEY FORT is Professor of Economics at Washington State
University. The author of dozens of articles and monographs on
sports economics, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal
of Sports Economics. He is a regular speaker and panel participant
on sports issues in the United States and Europe, and he has
testified before the U.S. Senate on competitive balance issues and
often renders expert opinion in legal cases in the United
States.
?[P]resents a great amount of data that addresses three main
questions involving intercollegiate athletics-- where do lucrative
athletics ventures fit in the mission of higher education, to what
extent is the central mission of creating an environment for
learning enhanced or limited by college sports and are declarations
by the NCAA to promote amateurism and competitive balance
supportive of the university mission.?-Athletics Administration
?Well-referenced, the book will be of most interest to social
scientists and legal scholars, but it should also be required
reading for university trustees and administrators, for elected
officials whose purviews include oversight and governance of
intercollegiate sports, and for professionals in the sports field.
Recommended. Public, academic, lower-division undergraduate and up,
and professional library collections.?-Choice
"ÝP¨resents a great amount of data that addresses three main
questions involving intercollegiate athletics-- where do lucrative
athletics ventures fit in the mission of higher education, to what
extent is the central mission of creating an environment for
learning enhanced or limited by college sports and are declarations
by the NCAA to promote amateurism and competitive balance
supportive of the university mission."-Athletics Administration
"Well-referenced, the book will be of most interest to social
scientists and legal scholars, but it should also be required
reading for university trustees and administrators, for elected
officials whose purviews include oversight and governance of
intercollegiate sports, and for professionals in the sports field.
Recommended. Public, academic, lower-division undergraduate and up,
and professional library collections."-Choice
"[P]resents a great amount of data that addresses three main
questions involving intercollegiate athletics-- where do lucrative
athletics ventures fit in the mission of higher education, to what
extent is the central mission of creating an environment for
learning enhanced or limited by college sports and are declarations
by the NCAA to promote amateurism and competitive balance
supportive of the university mission."-Athletics Administration
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