Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

Very compelling read if you are interested in the state of higher education. The author breaks down the sports system that sucks up so many resources from undergraduate education. He looks at how undergraduates subsidize graduate programs and debunks the myth that a winning sports program translates into more donations.

This book is a must read for anybody studying the financial state of higher education in the u.s. It is also for anybody who thinks that they are a college sports fan. It is for all taxpayers and for parents who are sending their kids to college. It is an outstanding piece of scholarship with the author openly admiting that what motivates people to attend college, and why they pick the schools they pick needs much more indepth study. He also admits that the role of sports at large public and private insitutions needs more study and that the financial books for athletic departments needs to be subject to sunshine laws.