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College Sports on the Brink of Disaster: The Rise of Pay-For-Play and the Fall of the Scholar-Athlet

College Sports on the Brink of Disaster: The Rise of Pay-For-Play and the Fall of the Scholar-Athlete

By John Lebar and Allen Paul

Originally published as Marching towards madness in Durham by Carolina Academic Press, 2020.

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Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Publish Date: 03/15/2022
Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781683584483
ISBN-10: 1683584481
Language: English

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Impelled by runaway spending and rampant corruption, America's much-beloved games of college basketball and football are being threatened. The specter of billion-dollar sums being showered on coaches, voracious athletic directors, hordes of support staff and lavish comforts for fans has led to a near-deafening roar to pay the players. The injustice of such sums being amassed, in the main, from the labor of young men of color many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds cannot be justified; and yet, American society has allowed this intractable problem to fester for more than half a century. Lured by the glitter of untold riches, naive young players enroll year after year in colleges and universities expecting the ultimate reward of a highly paid career as a pro. Only a minuscule few will advance that far; even fewer will reap significant financial rewards. Instead of educating them, colleges and universities force them into full-time athletic jobs in which their labor is shamelessly exploited. Small wonder that outraged critics demand compensation for the players, but these same critics only present vague answers when asked how such a radical change would work. College Sports on the Brink of Disaster, first published as Marching Toward Madness and now newly updated, cites twenty-one reasons why the pro-pay position is wrong, among them the prospect that the player talent pool will be concentrated to even fewer rich schools; recruiting wars will lead to more frequent scandals; and the regulatory powers of the NCAA will exponentially increase. Worst of all, pay-for-play will encourage schools to shirk even further the imperative to educate the young athletes. College Sports on the Brink of Disaster presents comprehensive reforms to end cheating and corruption in college sports, to put academics first, and to end the peonage of non-white athletes once and for all.

About the Authors

John LeBar earned his doctorate in education at Duke University, where he coached varsity tennis and later served as director of undergraduate studies. Allen Paul earned a graduate degree in international politics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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John LeBar earned his doctorate in education at Duke University, where he coached varsity tennis and later served as director of undergraduate studies. Allen Paul earned a graduate degree in international politics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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