Bowled Over : Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era /

Former college and professional football player Oriard explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. He gives close attention to decisions by the NCAA in the early 1970s that helped transform student-athletes into athl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oriard, Michael, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Football.
College sports > Marketing.
College sports > Management.
College athletes > Recruiting.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Football.
Sportifs universitaires > Recrutement > États-Unis.
College athletes > Recruiting > United States.
College sports > United States > Management.
College sports > United States > Marketing.
Football > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I: Football and the 1960s. From the sidelines of a football revolution ; College football in black and white, Part I: Integrating the Southeastern Conference ; College football in black and white, Part II: Black protest
  • Interlude 1973: The NCAA goes pro
  • pt. II: Living with a contradiction. Revenue and reform ; Opportunity, entitlement, and exploitation ; Thinking about reform.

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