Before March Madness

The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball

Kurt Edward Kemper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252085185 (ISBN)

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Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges, and regional state universities, and the competing interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own. Kurt Edward Kemper tells the dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century-and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Taking readers inside the competing factions, he details why historically black colleges and regional schools came to embrace commercialization. As he shows, the NCAA's strategy of co-opting its opponents gave each group just enough just enough to play along-while the victory of the big-time athletics model handed the organization the power to seize control of college sports.

An innovative history of an overlooked era, Before March Madness looks at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.

Kurt Edward Kemper is a professor of history and the director of the General Beadle Honors Program at Dakota State University. He is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Sport and Society
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9780252085185 / 9780252085185
Zustand	Neuware