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“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”
In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men’s basketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune—at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organization that puts their interests dead last.
For about 5 percent of top-division players, college ends with a golden ticket to the NFL or the NBA. But what about the overwhelming majority who never turn pro? They don’t earn a dime from the estimated $13 billion generated annually by college sports—an ocean of cash that enriches schools, conferences, coaches, TV networks, and apparel companies . . . everyone except those who give their blood and sweat to entertain the fans.
Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its “student-athletes” while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out because their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook.
Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss take us into the inner circle of the NCAA’s fiercest enemies. You’ll meet, among others . . .
·Sonny Vaccaro, the charismatic sports marketer who convinced Nike to sign Michael Jordan. Disgusted by how the NCAA treated athletes, Vaccaro used his intimate knowledge of its secrets to blow the whistle in a major legal case.
·Ed O’Bannon, the former UCLA basketball star who realized, years after leaving college, that the NCAA was profiting from a video game using his image. His lawsuit led to an unprecedented antitrust ruling.
·Ramogi Huma, the founder of the National College Players Association, who dared to think that college players should have the same collective bargaining rights as other Americans.
·Andy Schwarz, the controversial economist who looked behind the façade of the NCAA and saw it for what it is: a cartel that violates our core values of free enterprise.
Indentured reveals how these and other renegades, working sometimes in concert and sometimes alone, are fighting for justice in the bare-knuckles world of college sports.
- Sales Rank: #93766 in Books
- Published on: 2016-02-16
- Released on: 2016-02-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.31" h x 1.19" w x 6.38" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Review
“Impeccably reported and written, this book puts a bullet in the heart of the country's most morally corrupt institution and will help liberate the thousands who are truly indentured.”
—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights
“This relentlessly researched, one-stop-shop exposé proves that the NCAA is a hopeless failure posing as the steward of American college athletics."
—Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated
“A searing indictment of the power and exploitation at the heart of big-money college athletics.... A clarion call for anyone who believes that hard-working people deserve fairness, respect, and a level playing field.”
—Senator Cory Booker
“This book pulls back the covers on the lives that get chewed up by college sports. It’s beautifully written and compelling.”
—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit
“Shocking and stunning. Two of the nation’s finest newspaper writers have delivered an absolute masterpiece.”
—Paul Finebaum, ESPN
"Painstakingly reported and deftly written, Indentured shines the brightest light yet on the hypocrisy and injustice perpetrated by the NCAA."
—George Dohrmann, author of Play Their Hearts Out
“I think it should be required reading for all sports fans.”
—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“When I was in college, I felt like an indentured servant, exploited and controlled by all the people who were getting rich off my labors and my talent. This book is not only a must-read for college athletes and fans, but a call to action."
—Arian Foster, Houston Texans running back
“Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss have long recognized the widespread corruption that plagues big time college sports. These are issues that go beyond the sports pages.”
—Bob Costas
About the Author
Joe Nocera is a columnist for the New York Times. His previous books include All the Devils Are Here (with Bethany McLean), Good Guys and Bad Guys, and A Piece of the Action. During his long career in journalism he has won three Gerald Loeb Awards and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.
Ben Strauss is a contributing writer for The New York Times, where he has written extensively about the changing face of college sports. Previously, he worked on Capitol Hill. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Student Athlete's Lives Matter
By cantslowdown
In today’s world we go from headline, to sound-bite, to assumption, and then we form an unchangeable opinion. "Indentured" brings us a dose of reality. The story of how the NCAA exerts tyranny over the college athletics, strips student athletes of rights that every other person in America has and holds them hostages to their dreams cannot be told in a tweet, a post, a blog, or even a 20-minute expose on 60 minutes. Such a complex topic requires a book...THIS BOOK.
The narrative masterfully interweaves real human outcomes into the history and policy of the NCAA institution. Compelling and provocative topics are handled with great craft. Let me be up front. The author has a bias, and this book is an attempt to persuade. And guess what? It does. It’s not that hard as he often looks no further than an NCAA report or an NCAA official's own words and statements to convince us.
We’re constantly bombarded with news of scandal, probation, and fines as a result of endless violations of NCAA rules. If you’re like me, your first instinct is to roll your eyes and assume the problem is that players and parents are greedy, unscrupulous coaches are crooked cheaters, and over-the-top boosters are handing keys to little red corvettes to top college recruits. While there may be cases in which these assumptions are true, this book should give you pause to ask, “What exactly was the rule that was broken?” Or even more profound questions, “Who the hell gave the NCAA the right to supersede the US constitution? Why is the NCAA the only institution in the whole country that denies the right for an individual to have a job? What the hell is going on here? Why do we allow the abuse of power to grow?
Read this book and maybe you won’t be so quick to judge and assume that, “Those punks and cheaters deserve all the wrath that comes to them.” Maybe, when you hear of an NCAA scandal, your first thought ought to be, “Is there something wrong with the NCAA?”
This story deserved to be told in an interesting way…with a human side, and with all the financials and motives laid out on the table. And this book does that. Indentured opened my eyes. The business of college athletics is a high stake poker game and Joe Nocera has a hand full of Aces and just called the NCAA’s bluff.
The most compelling work of non-fiction I’ve read since One Way Ticket to Anywhere
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Gives a nuanced and human view of the NCAA, and is fun to read
By Aaron C. Brown
I have to disagree a little with the other reviewers and the blurbs listed by the publisher. This is not really an indictment of the NCAA as much as an explanation of how big-money college sports evolved. The book does document plenty of bad things done by the NCAA along the way, but there aren't many clean hands in the story, nor is there an alternative that is obviously better. Moreover, the NCAA changed along the way, as much as college sports did. It started as basically a coordinating organization for athletic directors, as the money stakes increased it became a for-profit negotiating entity (de facto, not de jure) that lost out in competition to powerful conference commissioners and even individual schools like Notre Dame and Penn State. At that point it was taken over by university presidents. Through all of this, outcomes are shaped at least as much by changing television economics, marketing tie-ins, social changes and lawsuits as by any decisions made by NCAA administrators.
There is only one way to tell this story, and it's to tell dozens of individual stories from the 1950s to late 2015. That makes this book fun to read, even if you care little about the overarching argument. You see major college football and men's basketball from the standpoint of players, coaches, universities, marketers, economists, lawyers, union organizers; pretty much everyone except the fans.
The book does document many abuses perpetrated by the NCAA, but not all student athletes are subject to all of them. For example, depriving players of the right to profit from their own images causes major economic losses only to the most prominent athletes. They are not the ones suffering from having scholarships pulled at the whim of a coach. Arguably, the college players who go on to successful pro careers (granted, a small minority) get as much in terms of top-level coaching and professionally managed national exposure that adds to their professional value, as they give in increased revenue to the schools. Also, the many student athletes who benefit from the education--in many cases attending schools they would not have otherwise qualified for, and having most or all of the education paid for--could be happy with the trade (and this covers most of the women athletes, plus the men outside of football and basketball).
There are some obvious losers, however. Some players are denied a chance at an education, others are unable to take advantage of it. Some players are injured, or even killed, and often denied healthcare expenses. Players can be cut for petty reasons, without recourse. The NCAA has often ignored due process and basic fairness, using threats, intimidation, and Star Chamber trials to ruin people's lives. Of course the victims are disproportionately poor and from minority groups.
On the other hand, conferences, universities and coaches--and players--have frequently been villains as well, and the NCAA is sometimes on the right side. Many of the worst abuses are abetted by legislators and judges who seem inexplicably deferential of big-college athletics, as if holding onto the naive fantasy of Win One for the Gipper is more important than constitutional rights.
Anyway, this book will show you the issues from all sides. There's no way to defend the NCAA, but there are different ways to reform it. The commercialism in college sports could be scaled back, or the rewards of that commercialism could be shared more fairly. Clear and rational rules could be set out with efficient and fair due process resolutions, or the system could allow more individualized judgment but by impartial and sympathetic arbitrators.
I have some minor gripes. In addition to getting Michael Oher's school wrong, as another reviewer noted, an appendix written by another author puts "Michael" instead of "Earvin 'Magic'" Johnson on the 1992 Dream Team. Paul 'Bear' Bryant is described as "the late, great" with no mention of brutality, cheating, game fixing and racism (I admit there are complex and unproved aspects to all of those things, but he was certainly not a great guy); while John Wooden is never mentioned without mentioning corruption. Wooden certainly turned a blind eye to Sam Gilbert's discounts and gifts to his players, but I don't know that UCLA was worse than other big basketball schools in this regard. In other respects--treating his players well (and not just the stars, and not just when they were playing), personal humility and of course basketball success--he was a great guy. And the idea that the NCAA went easy on UCLA is hard to square with the team being put on severe probation from 1957 - 60 (although for sins of the football team) and the Lew Alcindor rule in 1967 specifically to hamper UCLA. As a University of Washington fan who had to sit through twice-yearly 30-point drubbings by Wooden's teams, I have no prejudice in his favor, but I'd rather answer for his sins than Bryant's.
Anyway, this is a wonderful book that illuminates a complex and controversial situation through careful weaving of fascinating individual stories. First rate research and compelling writing make it easy to recommend it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Storming the Plantation
By Ron Barry
Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss have written a book that should be on the "must-read" list of anyone with an interest in college sports. With extraordinary research into virtually all of the ways that the NCAA has exploited its athletes (I found only one glaring mistake, relegating the lineman from 'The Blind Side' to attending Mississippi State rather than Ole Miss), this book aims a strong spotlight into the multitude of shadowy places from where the NCAA has operated throughout its history.
As a sport educator who has preached for years that the NCAA rivals the most corrupt organizations ever established on Earth, I appreciate that Nocera and Strauss have gathered all the evidence I'll ever need into one tidy volume. They join Taylor Branch, Jon Solomon, Andy Schwarz, Dan Rascher, Sonny Vaccaro, Andy Staples, and Ramogi Huma on the ever-more-crowded Mt. Rushmore of knowledgeable NCAA critics (even outlining many of their stories).
Read this book, put a picture of NCAA President Mark Emmert on the nearest dartboard, and hurl away with pleasure.
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