Wagging the Dog
Review of Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, by Ronald A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xii + 344 pp.)
… significant changes in the institutional governance and national regulation of intercollegiate athletics. Financial … fide undergraduates for a fixed number of academic years. National standards of tuition subsidization and recruiting … rationalized, and capitalized, just like most other national entertainment institutions. But virtually all of …