Southern Fried Football
In recent years, college football or otherwise known as Southern fried football, has experienced unprecedented dominance. The Southeastern Conference (SEC), long known for its passion …
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Subversion of the Academy by the NCAA
Two great American institutions are about to crank up. First-year students and their older classmates will soon return to campus for fall classes. Shortly after …
Will the Big 10 Raid the Big XII? An Exercise in Club Theory
Sports leagues can be thought of as clubs. To enter any club, permission must be obtained from the incumbents, which means a sufficient number of …
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What Determines Bowl Ticket Sales at the Institution Level?
Todd McCubbin, the executive director of the University of Missouri Alumni Association, writes a short piece on the number of tickets sold by Mizzou to …
College Coaches Running up the Score: Responding to Incentives
From Pat Forde at ESPN: Oklahoma ran it up last and loudest, scoring 45 fourth-quarter points in its past two games against Oklahoma State and …
Superconferences
From USA Today’s Campus Rivalry blog: Mike Slive, the conference’s commissioner, told the New York Times that he is prepared to react if the Big Ten adds …
Report to the Big 10: “Just say yes to expansion.”
In an earlier post, I wrote about Big 10 expansion and argued that if the Big 10 decided to expand, it would look east before …
Kurt W. Rotthoff as new Contributor at The Sports Economist
I am happy to join the great group of Sports Economists that post here at The Sports Economist. A day before I wrote my first …
The Most Interesting College Football Offseason Ever?
As a long time college football fan, the past few months have to be the most interesting off season I can remember. Here are a …
Chizik "A Good Buy Right Now"?
Lately, the hiring of Gene Chizik for the head football coaching job at Auburn generated a ton of (mostly negative) buzz. Charles Barkley’s comments about …