'What is wrong with US universities producing millionaire sportsmen for the NFL?'
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By Roger Pielke Jr 15 September 2015 Intercollegiate sports in the United States are as much a part of universities as math and physics, and the start of the 2015 NFL season is as good a time as any to explore one financial aspect of this. Today at the elite levels of college football and basketball there are considerable tensions between big-time sports and the broader academic mission of universities. Understanding big-time athletes requires understanding that the incentives which shape big-time sport are very different than those found in college sports more generally.
'What is wrong with US universities producing millionaire sportsmen for the NFL?'
'What is wrong with US universities producing…
'What is wrong with US universities producing millionaire sportsmen for the NFL?'
By Roger Pielke Jr 15 September 2015 Intercollegiate sports in the United States are as much a part of universities as math and physics, and the start of the 2015 NFL season is as good a time as any to explore one financial aspect of this. Today at the elite levels of college football and basketball there are considerable tensions between big-time sports and the broader academic mission of universities. Understanding big-time athletes requires understanding that the incentives which shape big-time sport are very different than those found in college sports more generally.