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Idea #1- College Sports
       Athletes many times go to school for free
       California recently legalized paying college athletes- big controversy 
       A lot of money goes into it
       Large factor of where students choose to go to school, ex. schools down south are bigger on sports

Idea #2- undecided

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  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 12, 2020 at 12:14 PM

    There have been lots of projects on college sports, including on whether college athletes should be paid, the big business of college sports, college sports and branding, the corruption caused by college sports, academic cheating and athletes, athletes and rape culture, athletic entitlement and rape, non-scholarship sports, chess teams as sports teams, cheerleading, etc.

    It is useful to think of college sports as a potentially self-funding form of brand management, alumni networking, and enrollment marketing -- and an aspect of "college life" that is essential to the success of the party pathway (an argument first made in the book Beer and Circus). Of course, as a branding strategy, athletics can be a dangerous territory: there is not only the danger of having a losing team (e.g.: Rutgers), but the danger of having a sports scandal (Penn State, North Carolina, the list goes on and on). Interestingly, there is some evidence that sports scandals are not necessarily as negative as you'd expect, as they do lead to plenty of name recognition. Ultimately, though, sports teams are just a necessary part of the college experience for many students, and so it is impossible to have a large university without them.

    Here are just a few of the many blogs on athletic-related topics -- you can find many more in the blog list:

    http://jsalm.blogspot.com/
    http://researchinsomedisciplines.blogspot.com/
    http://jimmyriccardi7.blogspot.com/
    http://austintsmith.blogspot.com/
    http://entitlementadeadlysinforathletes.blogspot.com/
    http://athleticrevenue.blogspot.com/

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  2. Michael GoellerFebruary 12, 2020 at 12:31 PM

    The issue of whether or not student athletes should be paid has attracted a lot of attention, and it would be worth revisiting, especially in light of the decision to pay athletes for the use of their likenesses. I thought that a good book

    Taylor Branch wrote a widely influential article on the issue back in 2011 that seems to have gotten the ball rolling:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/

    The documentary film Schooled: The Price of College Sports (2013) built on Branch's article and helped advance the ball even further downfield.

    A relatively recent book that pushed even further was Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA by Joe Nocera. It's a more popular, journalistic book, but it had a wide impact, and Nocera has made paying college athletes his mission in recent years.

    I am sure tons of publications have come out since then and I am sure you would not have a hard time making the case, if you are interested in pursuing that project.

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    1. Michael GoellerFebruary 16, 2020 at 6:54 AM

      Another good documentary is The Business of Amateurs. And I would not be surprised if ESPN has a documentary on the subject floating around.

      Documentary films are a good way to start "surveying the territory," to get an idea of the sort of questions people are asking and some of the facts.

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    2. Michael GoellerFebruary 16, 2020 at 7:04 AM

      Curious what new docs are out there, I did a quick search and found that HBO has one titled Student Athlete that looks very good and definitely talks about how athletes are unpaid -- and how few actually make it to the pros (let alone get a good college education that will actually help them land a job when they do not make it to the pros).

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