“…Previous research has primarily examined distributive justice, the perceived fairness toward athletic funding of stakeholders such as athletic directors, administrators, or students, but coaches have not been exclusively studied in the context of intercollegiate athletics, although they are important stakeholders (Mahony, Hums, Andrew, & Dittmore, 2010). Therefore, the results of this study yielded insight into the perceptions of fairness of the coaches toward their current resource distribution systems among athletic teams in intercollegiate athletics and also provided important implications for athletic departments.…”