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Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics
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Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics Hardback - 2006

by John R. Gerdy

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John R. Gerdy has seen nearly every side of athletics. He is the son of a high school football coach; he was an All-American and professional basketball player and a legislative assistant for the National Collegiate Athletic Association; and he served as an associate commissioner for the Southeastern Conference.

In Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics, Gerdy brings all of those perspectives to argue that the American system of school and community athletics is broken. But he is no mere naysayer. He offers a bold, progressive blueprint for reforming athletics to meet our country's educational and public health needs.

Given higher education's historic role of providing leadership in our society, the initiative to restore a more sensible balance between athletics and education must begin with the reform of big-time college athletics. Despite widespread public skepticism regarding higher education's ability to change the system, Gerdy argues that the opportunity for reform has never been better. Using a provocative mix of research and thoughtful observation, he argues that, for the first time in the history of American higher education, the critical mass of people, organizations, and outside pressures necessary to drive and sustain progressive, systemic reform of the college athletic enterprise are in place.

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Elite athletics was incorporated into our educational system for several reasons.

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  • Title Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics
  • Author John R. Gerdy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 270
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A.
  • Publication date April 2006
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781578068388 / 157806838X
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.74 x 0.95 in (22.40 x 14.58 x 2.41 cm)
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Library of Congress subjects College sports - United States, Sports - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005028429
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.043

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  • Library Journal, 04/01/2006, Page 102
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2007, Page 1

About the author

John R. Gerdy is visiting professor in sports administration at Ohio University. He is author of Sports: The All-American Addiction, The Successful Athletic Program: The New Standard, and Sports in School: The Future of an Institution, as well as numerous articles in journals such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, NCAA News, Sporting News, and Black Issues in Higher Education

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