Investigative piece on the role of money in college athletics

[ColeClaybourn]

I wrote a rather lengthy piece for my final journalism capstone assignment in May on the role of money in college athletics. I also looked at various issues such as athletes leaving school early for the pros, how injuries can affect athlete's futures and the value of a college education for any athlete.

It's framed by the the debate back in the spring between Buzz Bissinger and Jason Whitlock on whether or not banning college football is a good idea.

I put an entire semester's worth of work into this and for whatever reason never lobbied to get it published anywhere, but I'm pretty proud of it and a lot of research and interviews went into this.

A lot of it is centered around schools in Kentucky, because that's where I went to school (WKU), but plenty of it references schools and athletes nationwide.

It's about 25 pages on paper, double-spaced, so it would most likely need to be published parts at a time. I have it broken down into sub-sections though to make it easy to do this. PM me if you'd be interested in publishing all or part of this.

Thanks.

 

[ColeClaybourn]

Anyone interested? Buehler?

 

[Captain Obvious]

This isn't the right way to sell a story. Contact editors directly. I'm not sure anyone outside of Kentucky would care about schools in Kentucky, anyway.