Research Question

My current research questions focus on what college sports means for athletes. What is the real cost of college sports? How do athletes benefit and how do they suffer? How does team/athletic program culture lend into injury reporting? Are athletes really gaining enough to justify the sacrifices or are they being exploited for economic gain?

Academic Sources:



“At Risk: Are Unpaid College Athletes Exploited While Others Reap
Millions?.”Knowledge@Wharton. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 19 March, 2014. Web. 26 February, 2020 <https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/risk-unpaid-college-athletes-exploited-others-reap-millions/>

Edwards, Josh. “The Incompatibility of Sports and Higher Education.” Academic Questions, vol. 32, no. 3, Sept. 2019, pp. 342–353. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s12129-019-09805-5.

Geier, David. That's Gotta Hurt: the Injuries That Changed Sports Forever. ForeEdge, 2017.

Houston, Megan N., et al. “The Impact of Injury on Health-Related Quality of Life in College
Athletes.” Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, vol. 26, no. 5, Sept. 2017, pp. 365–375. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1123/jsr.2016-0011.

“Sport-Related Concussion Reporting and Coach-Athlete Attachment Among Collegiate
Student-Athletes.” Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018.

Comments

  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 27, 2020 at 6:55 AM

    I like this idea: it's not just that others are reaping millions, but that they are doing it by robbing college athletes.

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    1. Michael GoellerFebruary 27, 2020 at 7:28 AM

      I posted this comment to some other students working on this topic and can't remember if I had shared it with you. But I think the question of whether or not these students are getting robbed of an education is also very relevant to your topic:

      And there is so much pressure on these kids -- especially competitive pressures that make them push themselves beyond their limits to battle for those very few professional slots (see here: http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/estimated-probability-competing-professional-athletics).

      The fact that so few will ever play professionally really gets you thinking about how important it is that they actually get a college education out of the deal. Two books on that topic:
      1) The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports by Kenneth L. Shropshire (Wharton 2017)
      It is not available at the RU libraries, but you can have them order it.
      2) Cheated : The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports by Jay M. Smith and Mary Willingham, which the library has available online:
      https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rutgers-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1975019

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