published Sunday, April 7th, 2013 at 3:25 pm by
The BasicEmployeeRights Advocate
The recent events involving the Rutgers basketball program confirm a disturbing trend in college athletics. Over the last 30 years the increased emphasis on and pressure to win has helped foster a culture of workplace bullying. Long gone are the days when a football or basketball “coach” were also college professors.
Now individuals are hired by universities almost exclusively to do nothing but sale, market, recruit, train and coach “players”. If you listen carefully to both media and college coaches you here language like, “we coaches understand this is a business”, “Our players…”, “Our teams….”, etc. There’s hardly ever a reference to “student athletes” or “universities” anymore.
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