Discredited
The UNC Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal
$56.60
- Hardcover
204 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2021
Summary
In 2009, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was on top of the world. Consistently named one of the top universities in the country, it had welcomed a new phenom of a chancellor who promised to lead the public Ivy into the future. In the all-important athletic realm, the Tar Heels were the Coca-Cola of athletic brands. Resting upon the legacy of legendary basketball coach Dean Smith, UNC had carved out a reputation of excellence paired with squeaky-clean adherence to the rules. Su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780472132812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0472132814 |
| Author: | Andy Thomason |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Imprint: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Even diehard fans of college sports will question their obsession after reading this page-turning tale about the modern machinery that runs big-time athletics on campuses. Meticulously researched, Andy Thomason shows us what happens when fans and academic leaders alike turn a blind eye to the mission of higher education all in the name of entertainment, money, and fame.
* Jeffrey Selingo *This engrossing book captures with depth and passion the toxic cocktail that set the UNC scandal into motion, and strikes at the heart of the lies higher education tells itself to preserve the myth of amateurism. Thomason’s convincing argument should serve as a warning to higher education. Hopefully, it is a guide as well.
* Adam Harris *Big-time sports in American universities are predicated on the myth of amateurism; that serving athletes’ educational and athletic interests represent the enterprise’s guiding light. But football and men’s basketball, in particular, fuel a multibillion-dollar sports entertainment industry, one that has reached a breaking point. Andy Thomason shows why the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the perfect place to deconstruct the amateurism myth and to show its potentially devastating effects on the reputations and missions of institutions of higher education as university leaders across the nation today continue to cling to it.
* Victoria Jackson *Thomason’s book should inspire research into the post-college lives of typical players. All the patches” that UNC or any other big-sports university can devise can’t solve the underlying problem that Frank Porter Graham identified some ninety years ago.”
* James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal *Andy Thomason
Andy Thomason is Assistant Managing Editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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