The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was

Southall, Richard M.

Karcher, Richard T.

Nagel, Mark S.

Staurowsky, Ellen J.

Maxcy, Joel G.

Sports & Outdoors

University of South Carolina Press

A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics\nFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely restricted. To mask this inequity, the NCAA and its members created, disseminated, and embedded a fictitious "collegiate model of athletics" established and repeatedly modified for the benefit of member schools, designed to ensure profit-athletes were denied employment status and just compensation for their athletic labor.\nThe NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied.\nThe authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport–business enterprise. They provide evidence that at least since 1956 the NCAA's amateurism has been a collusive, exploitative, and racialized "pay for play" scheme that disproportionately affects Black profit-athletes. The authors cut through the institutional doublespeak of approved benefits, cost-of-attendance stipends, or name, image, likeness (NIL) collectives to lay bare the immorality of Power Five college sports.\nThe NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes makes the case that profit-athletes (and their representatives) must have the right to unionize and freely negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with management (e.g., NCAA, Power Five conferences and athletic departments). In addition, this book offers a forward-thinking structure in which individual labor contracts, or a potential collective bargaining agreement, address profit-athlete compensation and working conditions.

The growing global sport industry requires that the sport management curriculum keep abreast of new and proven management techniques. Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks provides readers with a comprehensive up-to-date introduction to each element of facility management for the full range of sporting events. 
The demand for individuals who are educated and trained in facility management event organization and risk management has grown significantly in the past decade. Each chapter provides both a theoretical foundation and practical applications for each critical phase of facility management: from pre-event briefings to cleanup and closings.

Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks (Sport Management Library)

Blair, David A.

Ammon, Rob

Business & Money

UNKNO

This fully revised and expanded second edition is an ideal text for students in sport facility and event management courses as well as an invaluable reference for managers and industry professionals. Written by a team of recognised scholars in the sport management field, the new edition provides readers with both the theoretical foundations and practical applications for understanding the sporting event industry. The authors have organised and presented a wealth of information surrounding sport and entertainment events, their risks, and the facilities in which events take place. The clear and concise style of writing is further supplemented with photographs, industry examples, chapter summaries, and study questions to assist students in gaining an overall understanding of the sporting event industry.

Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks

Ammon, Robin

An ideal text for students in sport facility and event management courses as well as an invaluable reference for managers and industry professionals. The updates to this third edition include an expanded discussion of naming rights and privatisation and a comprehensive event manual. This edition also features a new chapter entitled "Booking &amp; Scheduling."

Ammon, Robin, Jr.

Nagel, Mark

Sport Facility Management

Fit Publishing

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