Chapter eleven. Academic Standards, the 1.600 Rule, and Their Demise

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter one. Amateurism Then and Now 9
5. Chapter two. The Harvard Dilemma—Amateur or Professional 19
6. Chapter three “Scholarships” Eastern authority and early Payments 31
7. Chapter four. Training, Training Tables, and Athletic Dorms 45
8. Chapter five. The Amateur Challenge of Summer Baseball for Pay 61
9. Chapter six. The 1929 Carnegie Report condemnation of Professionalism 73
10. Chapter seven. The Southeastern Conference and Athletic Scholarships 88
11. Chapter eight. National Athletic Scholarship Failure: The Sanity Code 98
12. Chapter nine. The Cleansing of the Ivy League: No Athletic Scholarships? 109
13. Chapter ten. Recruiting, Full Scholarships, and the Big Ten Succumbs 123
14. Chapter eleven. Academic Standards, the 1.600 Rule, and Their Demise 134
15. Chapter twelve. Taxation, Workers’ Compensation, and the “Student- Athlete” 147
16. Chapter thirteen. Women’s Athletics, Title IX, and the Kellmeyer Lawsuit 160
17. Chapter fourteen. Television, Unions, and the Collapse of Amateurism 177
18. Chapter fifteen. Is NCAA “Amateurism” Alive? The O’Bannon lawsuit impact 189
19. Chapter sixteen. The Alston and Jenkins Lawsuits, and NCAA Fig- Leafed Professionalism 203
20. Chapter seventeen. State and Federal Legislative Pay- for- Play Action 218
21. Afterword 231
22. Acknowledgments 239
23. Timeline 242
24. Notes 255
25. Index 317