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The RePEc plagiarism page Big-Time Sports in American UniversitiesCharles T. Clotfelterin Cambridge Books from Cambridge University PressAbstract:For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated, and athletic budgets have ballooned. In the second edition of his influential book Big-Time Sports in American Universities, Clotfelter continues to examine the role of athletics in American universities, building on his argument that commercial sports have become a core function of the universities that engage in them. Drawing on recent scandals on large-scale college campuses and updates on several high-profile court cases, Clotfelter brings clear economic analysis to the variety of problems that sports raise for university and public policy, providing the basis for the continuation of constructive conversations about the value of big-time sports in higher education.Date: 2019
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allen sanderson is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Chicago. john siegfried is a professor emeritus of economics at Vanderbilt University and a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide.
Here, we offer some perspective on how commercialized college sports got started, what spawned their massive growth and why it is so difficult to reform or discontinue these activities in spite of repeated scandals.
The University of Chicago was the first to pay its head football coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was lured from his volunteer coaching position at Springfield College in 1892. Harvard built the first large permanent football stadium, with a seating capacity of 31,000, in 1903. With investments in staff and facilities, universities now needed to ensure sufficient revenues to pay their mortgages and coaches; thus began the focus on sports finances.
In those early years, intercollegiate competitions were usually organized by students, rendering universities potentially liable for injuries and the occasional death. With time, the universities managed to gain greater control over their teams, specifying who could play and under what rules. Closing ranks on the governance of intercollegiate athletics also enabled universities to improve their ability to use sports to recruit students to fill empty classroom seats.
Student recruitment remains one of the ostensible rationales for hosting commercialized intercollegiate sports, although there is little evidence that the boost to enrollment for schools with winning teams is either substantial or enduring. Moreover, most of the (limited) effect is simply to rearrange students among institutions rather than stimulate overall college attendance. In any event, one has to wonder whether students (or the institutions) are well served by marketing that conflates the quality of education offered with the win-loss records of their sports teams.
From the turn of the 20th century through the end of World War II, commercialized intercollegiate athletics remained on a reliably upward trajectory, supported by rising enrollment in higher ed. Meanwhile, enthusiasm for teams was bolstered by growing ranks of alumni, most of whom lived within driving distance of their alma maters.
For a variety of reasons, live spectator demand for college and university sports events also increased sharply after the war. First, the G.I. Bill increased college and university enrollment, adding to the ranks of loyal alumni as veterans graduated. Second, the post-war baby boom increased interest in college and university sports as the population of teenage boys and young men spiked in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1951, the NCAA decided to prohibit televised college football because it thought the opportunity to watch games on TV would cut into live gate attendance and receipts. Penn, however, refused to stop televising its games, precipitating the threat of a boycott by other NCAA teams.
The burgeoning pot of gold might have been competed away in bidding wars for star athletes. But the NCAA recognized the importance of using its cartel power to control these outlays at about the same time that revenues began to mushroom.
Player costs were not really brought under control until 1973, though, when the NCAA capped the number of grants-in-aid that could be offered by a team as well as the size of the grants. Football was initially restricted to 105 scholarships, which was lowered to 95 in 1978 and 85 in 1992. As a further cost-containment measure, freshmen were declared eligible to play on varsity teams, thus reducing the number of scholarship players needed to field competitive teams.
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Given the probable continuation of current economic conditions, as well as the need to continue to accelerate the academic development of the university, it is reasonable to expect that tuition and fee increases will be required each year in the future.
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This mandatory fee is charged to all registered students. The fee is assessed to help pay a small portion of the university's overall technology costs. It helps to fund technology priorities, ranging from classroom instruction, faculty research, expanded computer labs, student portals, wireless connectivity, on-line registrations, faster internet connectivity, server upgrades, computer security, and administrative systems. Whether a student lives on-campus, off-campus, or abroad, the technology services are available to them.
Our sports center fee is charged to all registered students, and is usedto help pay for building maintenance and service costs associated withthe sports center complex. The fee is not a membership fee for use thefitness center. Any registered student can use the entire sports centercomplex facilities, including the fitness center.
The University Board of Trustees approves and encourages strong andviable student-sponsored programs that contribute significantly to theintellectual and social development of the student body, serve theuniversity academic goals, encourage student participation andleadership, and enhance the general campus environment. To finance thesestudent-run organizations and programs (over 160), the Board directsthe assessment of a mandatory non-refundable student activity/programfee. Depending on your student status, those fees will be labeled onyour student account statement as Undergraduate Activity Fee, GraduateActivity Fee, or WCL General Fee.
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