Interview: Victoria Jackson, Sport Historian, on the Current Chaos of Fall Collegiate Sports

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode, Amira Rose Davis interviews Victoria Jackson, sports historian and Clinical Assistant Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. They discuss the struggle for power in the NIL system, the college football money machine, the mental health crisis in higher education and how the overturning of Roe vs. Wade will impact collegiate athletes. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down, and I am thrilled, oh yeah.
0:09.6	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the sports podcast you need.
0:14.1	Amira here, and I am thrilled today to be joined by friend of the show, Victoria Jackson.
0:20.7	Victoria is a sports historian and clinical assistant professor of history in the School of Historical,
0:26.1	philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
0:29.5	You also know she's one of the foremost experts on college sports and all its discontents.
0:36.8	A former athlete as well, track and field cross country, superstar.
0:42.2	And so I thought no better person to speak about all of the college sports chaos as we are
0:48.9	going into the fall season and many sports have already begun.
0:52.3	So, Victoria, welcome back to Burn it All Down.
0:54.7	Thank you, Amira. It's awesome to be here. So excited to dive into this. There is no shortage of
1:01.3	things to talk about. But I guess I'll start with college football because college football is back.
1:08.0	We saw some wild games this weekend, including miss field goals,
1:12.9	last minute losses. College game day just announced they are coming my way to Austin for the
1:19.0	Texas Alabama game. Like it's going to be a game that's competitive. It's baffling. There is so much
1:27.1	happening and you have been busy, and you've already started calling out this season
1:33.5	and the continued exploitation of college football athletes, among other things.
1:39.7	And so let's start with college football on the eve of the season,
1:43.6	also announced they were expanding the college football playoffs in the coming years to 12.
1:48.8	We have all this talk of realignment that really is turning on college football.
1:54.3	And then we have the season itself.
1:56.6	So where is your head at?
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