For Bowl Season, Elon University’s Jason Husser revisits the changing world of college athletics
Jason Husser (Photo: Elon.edu)
Few areas of modern American popular culture have undergone greater or more rapid changes in recent years that college sports. Thanks to a series of successful legal challenges, the nation’s longstanding practice of treating college athletes as amateurs has been completely upended and, especially at big schools engaged high-profile sports like football and basketball, teams have become professionalized, with many athletes switching schools yearly, and raking in multi-million dollar deals under so-called “name image and likeness.”
In a time of such rapid change…
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