Book chapter
College Sport Workplace Economics: Suppressing Player Compensation to Increase Profits
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes, p227
04 May 2023
Abstract
A frequent argument made by devotees of Power Five and Group of Five “big-time” college sports is that these universities could not afford the projected increase in labor costs if profit-athletes were to be classified as employees and compensated in accordance with their market value. Yet this fiscal excuse for not paying profit-athletes is iniquitous, and those who champion this rationale are propagating a falsehood. Since big-time college sport is a highly lucrative enterprise, restraining direct, market-based monetary compensation (i.e., pay) to the labor of its most valuable input (e.g., football) allows for the distribution of accumulated returns to other
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Details
- Title
- College Sport Workplace Economics
- Creators
- Joel G. Maxcy
- Publication Details
- The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes, p227
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sport Management (Center for Sport Management)
- Other Identifier
- 991021881395104721