Book Review - Unwinding Madness: What Went Wrong with College Sports - and How to Fix It

McDermand, Robert D.

doi:10.15763/issn.2376-5267.2018.1.3.78-81

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“…For example, faculty in kinesiology, physiology, and psychology could conduct studies with athletes that not only benefit the faculty with potential funding, publications, and conference presentations, but also the athletes and the athletics department with enhanced knowledge about athletes' physical and mental performances and areas for improvement. This would of course require athletics departments, who are often seen as lacking transparency (Gurney et al, 2017;Jayakumar & Comeaux, 2016), to allow or even encourage athlete participation in research. This also promotes sport-education integration if athletes are able to participate in the research and further draw connections between their sport participation and research opportunities and advancement.…”

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“…Previous scholarship has demonstrated that faculty often view athletics as a business operating within the walls of higher education (Clotfelter, 2019;Gurney et al, 2017;Kretchmar, 2023;Sperber, 2000). Indeed, MAU faculty held relatively strong views that MAU sports were a business, a common perspective for faculty throughout the academy (Clotfelter, 2019;Feezell, 2015;Lawrence et al, 2007).…”

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“…With this business focus, faculty and others with an SV lens see limited educational qualities associated with intercollegiate athletics, meaning the activity is not tantamount to an educational experience. Indeed, scholars argue that athletics culture can lead college athletes to devote more time to sport than education (Ayers et al, 2012;Rubin & Moses, 2017), resulting in lower academic performance, lower graduation rates compared to non-athlete peers, poorer career preparation, and struggles with retirement from sport (Gurney et al, 2017;Harper, 2018). Others note that funding that could-or should-support institutions' academic mission is funneled to athletics programs rarely operating in the black (KCIA, 2010;Sperber, 2000).…”

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Examining Faculty Perspectives on the Role and Value of Intercollegiate Athletics

Harry,

Springer

2024

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The uneasy marriage of higher education and athletics can be seen through the conceptual lenses of former institution and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Myles Brand’s Standard or Integrated View. The Standard View maintains that athletics serves as a business while the Integrated View argues that athletics should be appreciated as a form of education and art. Through these perspectives of athletics as a business, education, and art, this study surveyed faculty at one football bowl subdivision institution (n = 216) on their perceptions of athletics. Analyses demonstrated faculty perceptions were varied and contradictory as they noted athletics was simultaneously a business important for their institution, but also a detractor for higher education at large. Additionally, they perceived some developmental benefits of participation in athletics but still did not believe sports to be educational in nature. Implications for better understanding faculty perceptions of athletics while improving the education-sport marriage are discussed.

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Examining Faculty Perspectives on the Role and Value of Intercollegiate Athletics

Harry,

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2024

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“…In this way, the sports/media complex both reflects and reproduces hegemonic sports cultures. The institutions of family, government and, education also foster the prevailing beliefs, norms, traditions, and values of sport (Sperber 2000;Gurney, Lopiano, and Zimbalist 2017;Wheeler 2012). The result is an all-encompassing set of notions about what sport is, which are most and least valuable, and what sport is not.…”

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What Color is a Golden Boy? The Glorification and Disparagement of Male Superstar Athletes in Sports Illustrated

Woods

Hartwell

2023

Social Currents

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This study examined media representations of male superstar athletes over more than three decades. Some journalists portrayed their subjects as smart, physically attractive young men at the top of their games. Other writers emphasized their flaws and told stories of tarnished heroes. Based on an analysis of 140 references to sports stars in Sports Illustrated magazine articles, the results showed that favorable and unfavorable framing of athletes depended on their race/ethnicity, the dominance of their sport, and the historical context in which they played. Compared to white sports stars, racial minority athletes were more often portrayed with unfavorable frames, such as unintelligent, immoral, or lacking charm. Athletes from lesser-known sports were also more likely to be described with unfavorable frames than athletes from the four most dominant sports in the US (football, basketball, baseball, and hockey). Both favorable and unfavorable frames were more common in articles published in the most recent period (2013–2021) than in earlier decades (1987–2012), signaling an increasing interest among journalists in the personal qualities of sports stars. The study provides new empirical and theoretical insight on the relationships between three social antecedents—racism, hegemonic sport culture, and technological change—and the framing of superstar athletes.

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“…Negative stereotypes of athletics and athletes emerge as academic values, like teaching, research, and service, conflict with athletic values, such as commercialization, revenue-generation, and winning (Clotfelter, 2019;Jayakumar & Comeaux, 2016). Critics and scholars of intercollegiate athletics have noted that athletic values tend to supersede academic objectives, resulting in issues of educational integrity in academic support areas (Gurney et al, 2017).…”

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Tutor Perceptions of Division I College Athletes

Harry,

Hoffman

2023

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Research regarding athletics stakeholders’ (e.g., faculty, non-athlete peers) perceptions of Division I college athletes is abundant and demonstrates that most stakeholders hold negative and stereotypical views of athletes. However, despite their time spent with athletes, little is known about the perceptions academic tutors have toward the athletes they are brought in to assist. Thus, through the lens of stereotype threat, this study explored graduate(d) and undergraduate tutors’ (n = 67) perceptions of athletes from three academically and athletically elite Division I institutions. Tutors’ perceptions were examined and compared based on their responses to an adapted situational attitude scale survey using correlations, t-tests, and Fisher’s Z tests. In general, results suggested tutors did not maintain stereotypical perceptions of the athletes they worked with, a key difference from previous scholarship in this area. Still, graduate(d) tutors generally held athletes to higher academic standards compared to undergraduate tutors. Implications for sport practitioners in academic support programs for athletes include hiring more graduate(d) tutors to work with athletes and fostering stronger relationships between tutors and athletes. Ultimately, this study expands upon the previous research on perceptions and stereotypes of athletes and the findings may demonstrate a shift toward more positive and strengths-based perceptions of Division I athletes.

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Book Review - Unwinding Madness: What Went Wrong with College Sports - and How to Fix It

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Cited by 6 publications

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Examining Faculty Perspectives on the Role and Value of Intercollegiate Athletics

Examining Faculty Perspectives on the Role and Value of Intercollegiate Athletics

What Color is a Golden Boy? The Glorification and Disparagement of Male Superstar Athletes in Sports Illustrated

Tutor Perceptions of Division I College Athletes

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