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, executive director 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)
Future of Sports is a conversation series, hosted by the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program, that helps stakeholders think through key questions shaping the future of our games, the sports industry and its impact on society. Past events examined the future of football, a series on college athlete pay including the government’s role and the future of name, image and likeness rights, sports betting, athlete activism, coaching, the U.S. Olympic movement, women’s pro sports
, children’s rights in sports, and the future of sports in the climate crisis. Contact Sports & Society Program Executive Director Tom Farrey at [email protected] with questions or inquiries.
