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...this case, the president was the problem and not the solution," Feinstein said. "In big-time athletics in general, the president cannot control the coaches because the coaches are more powerful and make more money. And a lot of presidents don't even want to change the way things...
...future is hopeless at schools with major NCAA programs, why not praise the universities who look at sports the right way? That's the philosophy of Feinstein's latest book, The Last Amateurs...
...Feinstein has established himself as the authority on men's college basketball by writing about the antics of former Indiana coach Bob Knight in A Season on the Brink to the Atlantic Coast Conference, which annually boasts the nation's most successful hoops programs. In The Last Amateurs, however, Feinstein has turned to the little-known Patriot League, where academics is more important than athletics...
...Feinstein's book is full of uplifting stories. One involved Chris Spitler, who barely made the roster at Holy Cross, where he claimed to be the worst player in the worst conference in America. Spitler finished his senior year as the Crusaders' starting point guard and is now working at Goldman Sachs before he goes off to law school...
...Patriot League is modeled after the Ivy League, and they are the only two NCAA Division I conferences that do not allow their schools to give athletic scholarships. Feinstein said he chose to write about the Patriot League rather than the Ivy because its schools were less well known and lacked the glamour of academic, as well as athletic, prestige...