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 post, someone had brought to ...NCAA World Evolving but Toward What?
As Skip reminded readers in his recent pieces on realignment, the current drama fits into a larger historical framework. I thought it useful to review some of the major developments ...Game of the Day
The pundits in the press --most of them, as usual -- are missing the game of the day: Auburn vs. Clemson. The standard storyline is that this is a contest ...The Making of the NCAA into a "Spectacularly Profitable Cartel"
This is from the engrossing portrait of college sports by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch in The Atlantic, "The Shame of College Sports." The article is a must-read, tour de force ...Financial Problems at UC Berkeley
And it has nothing to do with the sorry state of the State Budget. I got an interesting cold call yesterday from a faculty member at UC Berkeley. He is ...Assorted Links on the NCAA
The University of Kansas, like the University of California, is employing equity seat rights to allocate seats to its athletic events. The equity seat rights are a supposed type of ...Sweet Lew's Sweet Compensation Package
Major college athletic programs are run in ways that are very similar their professional brethren. They compete in markets for top talent (except that in college, the players can't be ...NCAA Men's Basketball Postseason Roundup
March Madness is upon us again. This year, the men's college basketball postseason features some interesting economic madness across the board. For the second year in a row, there are ...Should the NCAA Expand Its Men's Tourney?
The NCAA is considering expanding its men's basketball tournament from 65 to 96 teams. According to Joe Walljasper, the last time the tournament expanded was in response to the creation ...Arn Tellem on the NCAA Ban on Advisors
Arn Tellem has an interesting piece in the Huffington Post on the NCAA's ban on player advisors (agents). Here are the first two paragraphs: Of all the injustices heaped on ...
