A Professor with an Alternative Way Forward for College Sports

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to Ben Carrington about USC’s new head coach Lincoln Riley and the bloated contract the university offered him. Carrington goes into detail about the big issues in college athletics including the transfer portal and the very structure of college sports.

We also have "Choice Words" about a hedge fund investor who owns a sizable portion of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and the comments he made about what’s happening to the Uighurs. Plus, the “Just Stand Up” and “Just Sit Down" awards, and another special playoff edition of Jake’s Takes as well. All this and more on this week’s show!

Ben Carrington

Twitter: @BenHCarrington

https://www.bencarrington.com/

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0:54.4	everything secure. Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. This week we are speaking to one of my favorite folks. His name is Ben Carrington. He's a professor of sociology and journalism at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, aka USC, and the author of Race, Sports and Politics, The Sporting Black Diaspora. He is going to talk to us about USC, college football,
1:32.6	and the recent $150 million hiring of Lincoln Riley, the new football coach. Cannot wait for
1:40.0	this conversation. Also, I've got some choice words about the NBA looking like hypocrites on questions of social
1:48.6	justice.
1:49.7	I've got Jake's takes.
1:51.4	I got the Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards.
1:54.5	I got Kaepernick Watch.
1:55.8	I got more.
1:56.7	So please stick around and let's speak to Professor Ben Carrington.
2:03.7	Lincoln Riley, USC, the contract details, $110 million, $6 million home in L.A., unlimited use of the private jet 24-7 for family.
2:15.3	What's the reaction been on campus in your circles to the hiring of Lincoln
2:21.4	Riley? Well, it depends which circles we're talking about. So within, I think within the
2:29.3	faculty as a whole and the staff, I think there was dismay, if I'm honest, you know, a sense.
2:38.1	I mean, you have to remember, as with many universities, like USC has spent the past, effectively,
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