The Occasional Observer: College Athletics, a Dollar Auction Game
Published Online:1 Jun 1996https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.26.3.22
Abstract
Athletics has been an important part of the US college experience for well over a century. The benefits of participating in sports are clear. However, intercollegiate athletics has been problematical almost from inception. We think of the problems as new and a product of profits from television.
