An Investigation of Financial Spending and Distributive Justice Principles in NCAA Division I Athletic Departments

Autor: Barbara Osborne, Coyte G. Cooper, Edgar W. Shields, Danielle Gaynor
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education. 8:47-64
ISSN: 1935-7400
1935-7397
DOI: 10.1179/1935739714z.00000000018
Popis: The Knight Commission cites two critical spending issues in Division I college athletics: the imbalance of rapidly rising expenditures against slow-moving revenues and the widening gap between wealthy conferences and struggling conferences (2009). The purpose of this study is to compare expenditure trends in men’s revenue sports, men’s non-revenue sports, and female sports from 2006–2009, to determine if differences in distributive justice principles exist in budget decisions of athletic departments that fall within three Division I classifications: Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), and the Non-Football Subdivision (Division I without Football). FBS institutions were found to almost completely abide by equity principles when making budgetary decisions while the FCS and Non-Football Subdivision made more decisions founded in principles of equality and need.
Databáze: OpenAIRE