Future of Sports: College Sports Reform in the Public Interest
Hosted by the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program
Future of Sports is a conversation series by the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program. The series helps stakeholders think through key questions shaping the future of our games, the sports industry and its impact on society.
How to rebuild college sports for all
To date, the national conversation around NCAA reform has centered on two parties: revenue-producing athletes and the universities they play for. But college sport is not an island. It sits on top of a much larger ecosystem, youth and school sports, which has been reconfigured by the manic chase for scholarships, preferential admission slots, and now NIL. An array of other stakeholders also will be impacted by the model that emerges once the courts and regulators sort out what's allowed, from Olympic sports to the professional leagues, low-income families to students trying to cover tuition, even efforts to address public health and climate change.
So how to get the new model right? How to reform college sports in the public interest? Tom Farrey, executivedirector of the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program, explores five bold ideas with the help of other experts and journalists who have studied the U.S. sport system.
Join us Feb. 28 from 12-1pm ET with speakers:
Kevin Blackistone, journalist and professor, University of Maryland
Victoria Jackson, sports historian and professor, Arizona State University
Michael McCann, Sportico legal analyst and law professor, University of New Hampshire
David Ridpath, Ohio University sports business professor and author, Alternative Models of Sport Development in America: Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health
Tom Farrey, executive director, Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program (moderator)
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