[426] FROM BCS TO BASEBALL, NEW MTSU SPORTS JOURNAL SPREADS INFO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

FROM BCS TO BASEBALL, NEW MTSU SPORTS JOURNAL SPREADS INFO
Journal Conceived by MTSU Professor Informs Sport Managers, Academicians

(MURFREESBORO) – Athletic conferences affiliated with the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) commit significantly more major recruiting violations than non-BCS conferences. That’s one finding of an article in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Sport Administration & Supervision (JSAS), released this month by MTSU’s Sport Management Program.
The BCS article, written by Texas A&M professors Robert S. Clark and Paul J. Batista, includes the averages of all major violations and secondary violations in Division I collegiate football programs from 1970 to 2007 with specific focus on major infractions from 1987 through 2007, when the current Division I structure was instituted.
The journal also features articles on social problems in Major League Baseball, the effectiveness of product endorsements by athletes, perceptions of basketball coaches at NAIA Division II Christian schools, marketing college baseball programs with limited resources, and the World Baseball Classic’s potential as a promotional tool for Major League Baseball.
“This issue will be a landmark event in turning the attention of the sport management academy toward serving the practitioner population of the sport industry, and we believe that its revolutionary approach to scholarship will continue to attract cutting-edge research that can make a difference in sport institutions everywhere,” says Dr. Colby Jubenville, co-founder and publisher of JSAS and director of the Sport Management Program.
So that the journal can be used more easily by nonacademic sport practitioners, a whitepaper accompanies and summarizes each scholarly article for quick reading.
“We know sport managers are busy people, but they face a critical need for information, just like managers in any industry,” says JSAS Editor Benjamin D. Goss. “Whitepapers are widely used in today’s managerial world to help digest large quantities of information, so we decided to import that concept into the sport management academy.”
Other highlights of the inaugural issue are an excerpt from Hara Estroff Marano’s A Nation of Wimps, a book which describes how some parents undermine their children’s success and short-circuit the youngsters’ brain development by incorrectly defining success, and an excerpt on NCAA Division II programs from College Athletics Clips, a publication of executives summaries of news and issues in college sports.

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“We have entered a new era of scholarly publication, not only in the field of sport management, but in academia as a whole, and we invite other journals to consider the new model we have contrived and draw inspiration from it to benefit future research efforts,” Jubenville says.
MTSU publishes the Journal of Sport Administration and Supervision in partnership with the University of Michigan Library and its Scholarly Publishing Office and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. To access the debut issue, go to www.jsasonline.org. For more information, contact Jubenville at 615-898-2909 or jubenvil@mtsu.edu or Goss at 417-836-6592 or drbengoss@hotmail.com.