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November 2010, Cover Stories
Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform
According to a book review of this provocative book, Ronald A. Smith, who has chronicled the mostly dismal record of athletic reform in college sports for decades, details the efforts to purify intercollegiate sports since the first teams faced off in the 1850s. He makes a solid case for why reforms are needed today.
He makes a solid case for why reforms are needed — to counter the influence of money in collegiate sport, to ensure that college athletes are and remain college material and to otherwise eliminate the corruption and distortions sports bring to college campuses. He also calls for college governing boards, presidents, faculty and students to share responsibility for change.
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