“We Aren’t Looking at This as an Audition”: Exploring Interim Leadership in College Athletics

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair W. Browning ◽  
Jeffrey W. Kassing
Keyword(s):  
College Athletics ◽  
Interim Leadership

“We Aren’t Looking at This as an Audition”: Exploring Interim Leadership in College Athletics

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair W. Browning ◽  
Jeffrey W. Kassing
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
Ohio State University ◽  
Press Conference ◽  
Head Coach ◽  
State University ◽  
Initial Examination ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Interim Leadership

Interim coaches have become commonplace in college athletics. With much at stake, they must act as leaders despite the constraints that accompany interim status. This case study provides an initial examination of interim leadership in the domain of college athletics by focusing on a specific high-profile interim coach’s initial press conference. The authors specifically consider the content of The Ohio State University football coach Luke Fickell’s first press conference after being named interim head coach. Their analysis reveals that Fickell strategically managed the interim label and the temporal nature of the interim role, balanced service goals and career-aspirant ones, and performed collective identity through a variety of means. The implications of these practices for interim coaches in college athletics are discussed.

The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
Team Sport ◽  
Antitrust Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Sports Economics ◽  
Managerial Behavior ◽  
The North ◽  
Individual Productivity

This book is the second volume of the two-volume The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Sports which includes articles by nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of sports economics. The two volumes consider in depth the ways that economics and sports interact with each other. To start with, economic analysis has helped with the understanding of many of the different institutions in sports. Secondly, quality data about individual productivity, salaries, career histories, teamwork, and managerial behavior has been useful in helping economists study topics as varied as the economics of discrimination, salary dispersion, and antitrust policy. The volumes are also rich from the point of view of the sports fan. Every major team sport is covered, and many interesting comparisons can be made especially between the North American League organization and the European-style promotion and relegation leagues. Golf, NASCAR, college athletics, women's sports, the Olympics, and even bowling are represented in these pages.

scholarly journals Learn how anti‐doping legislation potentially impacts college athletics administrators

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Paul Massaro ◽  
Travis T. Tygart ◽  
Timothy Neal ◽  
Ken Wright
Keyword(s):  
College Athletics

scholarly journals College Athletics Spending: Principals and Agents v. Arms Race

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Fort
Keyword(s):  
College Athletics ◽  
Athletic Directors ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Athletic Department ◽  
The Past ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Budgeting Process

It is widely held that collegiate athletic directors are trapped in an expenditure arms race.  But the arms race explanation completely omits the actual consideration of the university budgeting process.  In its place, the arms race logic imposes strained assumptions about the cooperative setting and the naïveté of university administrators, along with a curious distinction of one type of revenue to reach its conclusions.  And the interpretation of the data on spending and benefits from college sports has not been done particularly well in the past. This paper presents an alternative principal-agent explanation that is based on the observed actual financial (budget) relationship between university administrators and their athletic department and consistent with the entirety of the aggregate-level data on college athletics finance.  Empirically discerning between the two models is crucial since each generates decidedly different policy implications.

Supplements in College Athletics

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-62
Author(s):  
E. Paul Roetert
Keyword(s):  
College Athletics
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