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Destin Hall
Dr. Lauren Mason
English 1101-015
November 20, 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Foster, Scott. "Street Agents: Third Party Involvement in College Football Recruiting."
Bepress.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
This essay goes into detail on the unethical practice of unofficial agents in college
sports recruiting. Money being paid to street agents in order to get talented athletes to
attend a certain university is the main topic of this paper. Showing that money is being
paid unethically and without question to unofficial agents will benefit my research paper.
Funk, Gary D. Major Violation: The Unbalanced Priorities in Athletics and Academics.
Champaign: Leisure Press, 1991. Print.
Gary Funk’s notions in this book correlate extremely well with the concepts that I
desire to represent in my research paper. Chapter five discusses specific examples of
violations made in college sports recruiting. It suggests that society is the root cause of
the violations in college sports and that winning is, in fact, everything. In an unethical
culture, how can one expect individuals involved in sports to be held to a higher ethical
standard?
Gerdy, John R. Sports in School: The Future of an Institution. New York: Teachers College
Press, 2000. Print.
This book deals with questions concerning the ethics of college sports as a
business and the integrity of athletics in higher education. The author links the decline of
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ethics in society to the decline of ethics in college recruiting. This link provides valuable
information concerning the decay of ethics in college sports and college sports recruiting.
Jordan, Jason. "Recruit X Talks 'After Hours' of College Visits." Espn.go.com. ESPN, 5
Jan. 2012. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.
Jason Jordan’s article gives a great example of a typical college athletic recruiting
trip. NCAA violations and ethical problems are presented. The recruit, who is unnamed
for personal protection, gives exact accounts of what goes on during official sports
recruiting trips. From the nightclub to the girls, he goes into enough detail to get across
the fact that there are many illegal activities going on during official visits. "I know that
[the coaches] wanted the players to show us a good time," said the recruit.
Lapchick, Richard, E. "The Integrity of the Enterprise." New Game Plan for College Sports.
Westport: Praeger, 2006. 31-57. Print.
Showing dubious practices in college sports, this chapter challenges the integrity
of college sports. Questioning both recruiting practices and college sports as a whole, this
section is very useful in giving evidence about these potential problem.
Lederman, Doug. "Half of big-time NCAA programs had major violations." usatoday.com.
USA
Today, 2 Feb. 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
This article shows that NCAA violations are very common and that most times
violations go unnoticed by the public. The information is useful to help ask whether or
not these violations are a problem. If society does not seem to notice these violations or
care about them, are these violations truly a problem? Doug Lederman’s article states that
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“53 of the 120 universities in the NCAA's top competitive level, the Bowl Subdivision,
were found by the Division I Committee on Infractions to have committed
major rules violations from 2001 to 2010."
Richards, Sarah. "College Sports Sex Scandal." Seventeen Sept. 2004: 164-65. ProQuest.
Web.
21 Nov. 2013.
This piece is a detailed account of Emily, a girl who joined a college football
recruit hostess team. It implies that the coaches recognize that the male recruits are
expecting hostesses and that they expect the hostesses to do more than show them
around. The article clearly goes into detail of hostesses’ duties and of what illegal
activities go on at night during official sports recruiting trips.
Shulman, James L. and William G. Bowen. The Game of Life: College Sports and
Educational
Values. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Print.
In this book by James L. Shulman, there are many statistics on the GPA’s on both
college sports recruits and college athletes. Showing the lack of requirements by college
admissions for student-athletes, this information is beneficial. This book points out that it
is not just the coaches, who use unethical practice in recruiting, but it is also the
university as a whole involved in these violations.
Sperber, Murray. "Admissions Office Scams." Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College
Sports is
Crippling Undergraduate Education. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000. 5359. Print.
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On these pages, the author goes into detail concerning the foul play that the
admission offices use in helping athletes to get admitted into universities. This evidence
is valuable. It states that during visits “prospective students and their parents learned
about festive occasions, but not who teaches undergraduate classes. They visited the
student union and dorms, not the library. The winning football record was discussed, but
no mention was made of academic honors. Visitors heard about ‘keg parties,’ not about
concerts and lectures. One had the distinct impression that the campus was a place with
abundant social life. Education was ignored” (Sperber 56). This practice may not seem
like an unethical, yet the admission offices give the prospective student athlete a faults
sense of the college experience. Disregarding the academic side of college to make the
impression that their college is focused on social activities might be considered an
unethical play on the admission offices’ part.
Vitale, Dick. "The Problem in Recruiting." ESPN.com. ESPN, 3 Aug. 2012. Web. 18 Nov.
2013.
This article will bring the opinions of Dick Vitale, the famous ESPN
commentator, into my paper. The reliable figure states his belief that “college…
recruiting has become a cesspool.” Vitale’s stories point out the fact that coaches are
bending rules and that the ethics of recruiting need to change. Mr. Vitale says, “[I]t is all
about winning, winning, winning. That is bad for the sport, and it is sad to see guys
looking only at the W's. Perhaps they should look in the mirror and realize that recruiting
is not being done in the right way."
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