Sports, Study, or Sleep by Dinur Blum

Author:Dinur Blum
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030613266
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

D. BlumSports, Study, or Sleephttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61326-6_5

5. “Professional Sports Are a Well-Paying Temporary Job”: Messages from Coaches

Dinur Blum1

(1)California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dinur Blum

Email: [email protected]

Coaches are an authority figure for student-athletes. The head coaches of a team set the tone, not only for how they expect their student-athletes to compete, but also how they expect student-athletes to behave and work in the classroom. The early part of this chapter focuses on power-five football and men’s basketball coaches; the second part focuses on smaller-revenue sports and smaller (sports-wise) schools. While I was able to interview several power-five coaches, they coached sports like volleyball, soccer, and baseball, which are less lucrative than football and basketball. Most of the coaches interviewed in this chapter work at smaller, non-power-five schools. The schools’ division affects scholarship availability for student-athletes and the available resources for success on the field and in the classroom.

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