New Game Plan for College Sport

Subjects:

• Education » Higher Education
• Popular Culture » Sports

Awards:

• CHOICE 2007 Outstanding Academic Title

Reviews:

• Sponsored by the American Council on Education and issued in the "ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education," this volume addresses the current state of intercollegiate sports and offers recommendations for future action in reforming the NCAA. The author of numerous books on sports, Lapchick is an activist, and he gathers here 18 essays that look at "the issues" and "the players." The core of the book is the examination of issues: the integrity of college sports, higher education's failure to emulate the professional model, ethical dilemmas, race, coaching opportunities, gender, wagering, performance enhancing drugs, sports agents, and the influence of the media. The second section comprises various "forums"--forums of college presidents, conference commissioners, athletic directors, faculty, and student athletes. These essays are slightly polemical but include a lot of information. Fitz Hill, former head football coach at San Jose State, offers a particularly insightful analysis of the issue of race and college football, and the student-athlete forum is notable for the participants' excellent preparation. The final chapter, Lipchick's "Recommendations," should be required reading for anyone involved in, or interested in, intercollegiate sport. Highly recommended. Undergraduates, professionals and professionals in training, and general readers.
  —Choice November 2006
• Lapchick brings together conflicting voices on the business of running college sports in the United States.
  —Reference & Research Book News August 2006

• Endorsement From Joe Crowley
  President, University of Nevada, Reno
  Former President, NCAA: Having just concluded authoring a book on the history of the first 100 years of the NCAA, I had ample time to recall all that is right and what we need to do better in college sport. This book can serve as a road map to successfully address the issues we have yet to fix. I recommend it highly.
• Endorsement From Dan Guerrero
  Athletics Director, UCLA: As a former student-athlete and now a long-time athletics director, I have personally witnessed all the issues we face in college sport over decades. New Game Plan for College Sport captures the essence of the issues but then brings in all the people with the power to bring about change with some real solutions. This should serve as a powerful tool to guide college sport in the years ahead. It is a must read for educators and people in college athletics.
• Endorsement From Judith M. Sweet
  Sr. Vice President for Championships and Education Services, NCAA: New Game Plan for College Sport covers most all the issues we face in college sport. While it is easy to point out what we need to fix, the contributors to this book give us detailed ideas for making things better. I am especially pleased by the sections on race and gender as well as the offerings by the presidents, directors of athletics, commissioners, faculty and student-athletes who provide invaluable insights.
• Endorsement From Floyd Keith
  Executive Director, Black Coaches Association: The BCA stands for opening the doors to bring the best people into college sport. We want more people of color and women. New Game Plan for College Sport is full of ideas of how to do this and they come from some of the most important players in college sport. Lapchick's book is a must read for those who seek equal opportunity in college sport.
• Endorsement From Chris Momasch
  Director of Athletics, St. John's University
  Formerly Commissioner, America East: New Game Plan allows you to hear from some of the leaders in intercollegiate athletics on the complex issues we face in college sports as we try to live up to the ideals expected in the context of higher education.
• Endorsement From Fitz Hill
  President, Arkansas Baptist College
  Former head football coach, San Jose State: Lapchick has brought people together who rarely share ideas with each other. As a result, New Game Plan synthesizes what we need to do in college athletics to hire the best people, irrespective of race or gender, and offer the best programs. As a new college president and former head football coach, I know I will keep this book on my desk. We all should.

Table of Contents:

• Preface by Richard E. Lapchick
• Historical Overview by Welch Suggs
• The Issues
• The Integrity of the Enterprise by Richard Lapchick
• Higher Education's Failed Experiment with Professional Athletics by John R. Gerdy
• Ethical Dilemmas in College Sport by Sharon K. Stoll
• Race in College Sport by Richard Lapchick
• The Impact of Race as it Relates to Employment Opportunities for Collegiate Football Coaches by Fitzgerald Hill
• Gender and Sport by Donna A. Lopiano
• National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Issues of Sports Wagering by Bill Saum
• Performance Enhancing Drugs: The Wounds Behind the Glory by Yun-Oh Whang
• Agents on Campus by Fritz G. Polite
• "Show mw the Money" Created a College Sportocracy: The Influence of the Media by Charles S. Farrell
• The Players
• The Presidents' Forum by John DiBiaggio, Joe Crowley, John Hitt, and Roger Webb
• Conference Commissioners' Forum by Jim Delaney, et al.
• Athletics Directors' Forum by Clarence Underwood, Don DiJulia, Dan Guerrero, and Bill Byrne
• Faculty Forum by Percy Bates, et al.
• Student-Athletes' Forum by Lindsay Beddow, et al.
• The NCAA by Dan Boggan
• Recommendations by Richard Lapchick