TY - JOUR
T1 - Immoral Mismatch or Just Another Game? Rivals.com Framing of Fbs-Fcs Football Games
AU - Kian, Edward M.
AU - Lee, Jason W.
AU - Gregg, Elizabeth
AU - Kane, Jennifer J.
N1 - Kian, E. M., Lee, J. W., Gregg, E., & Kane, J. J. (2014). IMMORAL MISMATCH OR JUST ANOTHER GAME? RIVALS.COM FRAMING OF FBS-FCS FOOTBALL GAMES. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 8(2), 75-91 https://doi.org/info:doi/
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Sport fans have long debated the topic of running up the score on opponents (Keating, 1964). Many sport philosophers and journalists have criticized this practice as an example of poor sportsmanship (Feezell, 1999; Sailors, 2010). However, the practice of teams willfully scheduling contests against inferior opponents has historically received less attention. That has changed in recent years, most noticeably after a Texas high school girls basketball team defeated another, 100-0 (Sailors, 2010). Scheduling easy opponents, however, has long been routine in college football, where a majority of marquee programs in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) play 66-75% of their non- conference games against lesser FBS programs or teams in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Southern Cal are prominent examples of FBS programs, while most members of the FCS are lesser- known universities such as Eastern Washington, Georgia Southern, Sam Houston State, and Western Carolina.
AB - Sport fans have long debated the topic of running up the score on opponents (Keating, 1964). Many sport philosophers and journalists have criticized this practice as an example of poor sportsmanship (Feezell, 1999; Sailors, 2010). However, the practice of teams willfully scheduling contests against inferior opponents has historically received less attention. That has changed in recent years, most noticeably after a Texas high school girls basketball team defeated another, 100-0 (Sailors, 2010). Scheduling easy opponents, however, has long been routine in college football, where a majority of marquee programs in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) play 66-75% of their non- conference games against lesser FBS programs or teams in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Southern Cal are prominent examples of FBS programs, while most members of the FCS are lesser- known universities such as Eastern Washington, Georgia Southern, Sam Houston State, and Western Carolina.
KW - Rivals.com
KW - Coaches & Managers
KW - Web Sites
KW - Athletics Directors
KW - Athletes
KW - Michigan
KW - Oklahoma
UR - https://unf-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/openurl?institution=01FALSC_UNF&vid=01FALSC_UNF:UNF&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi%2Ffmt:kev:mtx:journal&date=2014-04-01&issue=2&rft_id=info:eric%2F&rft_id=info:doi%2F&isbn=&spage=75&title=Journal%20of%20Contemporary%20Athletics&atitle=IMMORAL%20MISMATCH%20OR%20JUST%20ANOTHER%20GAME%3F%20RIVALS.COM%20FRAMING%20OF%20FBS-FCS%20FOOTBALL%20GAMES&sid=ProQ:ProQ:&volume=8&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&issn=15549933&au=Kian,%20Edward%20M;Lee,%20Jason%20W;Gregg,%20Elizabeth;Kane,%20Jennifer%20J&genre=article&btitle=&jtitle=Journal%20of%20Contemporary%20Athletics
M3 - Article
VL - 8
SP - 75
EP - 91
JO - Journal of Contemporary Athletics
JF - Journal of Contemporary Athletics
IS - 2
ER -