Discredited : The UNC Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal by Andy ...

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
0472132814
ISBN-13
9780472132812
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26050077555

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
204 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Discredited : the Unc Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal
Subject
General, Higher
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Sports & Recreation, Education
Author
Andy Thomason
Format
Hardcover

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0.6 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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2021-020070
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"Thomason's book should inspire research into the post-college lives of typical players. All the "patches" that UNC or any other big-sports university can devise can't solve the underlying problem that Frank Porter Graham identified some ninety years ago." -- James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Table Of Content
Author's note Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Afterword Acknowledgments Bibliography
Synopsis
In 2009, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was on top of the world. Consistently named one of the top universities in the country, it had welcomed a new phenom of a chancellor who promised to lead the public Ivy into the future. In the all-important athletic realm, the Tar Heels were the Coca-Cola of athletic brands. Resting upon the legacy of legendary basketball coach Dean Smith, UNC had carved out a reputation of excellence paired with squeaky-clean adherence to the rules. Supporters had a name for that irresistible ethos: the Carolina Way. The Tar Heels were climbing even higher. That year, they won their fifth national championship in men's basketball and looked poised to climb the ranks in football under a new, high-powered coach. But within just a few years, it all came crashing down. The Tar Heels' success, it turned out, was based on a foundation of deceit. Athletes were flocking to a slate of fake classes that advisers deftly used to keep them eligible to play. That revelation and others metastasized into one of the most damaging scandals ever to visit an American college. In Discredited , journalist Andy Thomason provides a gripping and authoritative retelling of the scandal through the eyes of four of its key participants: the secretary who presided over the fake classes, the professor who directed players toward them, the literacy specialist turned whistleblower who sought to expose the system, and the chancellor who found his career suddenly on the line. The heart-stopping narrative reveals the toll of a college's investment in major sports, and the amateurism myth upon which it is based. Based on dozens of original interviews and thousands of pages of documents, Discredited demonstrates just how far a university will go to preserve the athletic status quo: tolerating tarnished careers, ruined reputations, and years of scathing media criticism--all for a shot at competitive glory.
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GV885.43.U54T48 2021

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