Same Players, Different Game - by John C Barnes (Paperback)

About the Book

In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making.

Book Synopsis

2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for Adventure, Sports & Recreation

In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts. Barnes provides an accessible outline of the historical background and potential future of the commercial college athletics industry from a nonjudgmental perspective. Same Players, Different Game not only serves as a text and guide for governance and leadership but also as a primer for the economic and political realities of modern college athletics that students and sports fans will find fascinating.

Review Quotes

Dives deep into the large maze that is college sport. . . . This book contributes critical assistance in understanding what the NCAA was and is.--Braden Norris, International Journal of Sport Communication

About the Author

John C. Barnes is an associate professor of sports administration at the University of New Mexico. He formerly served as the head athletic trainer at Chaffey College and as an athletic trainer with the California Angels and the Montreal Expos organizations. For almost two decades he has worked in sports-management education, focusing his research on various issues in college athletics.