March 3, 2006

Keeping Score on Coaches

By GORDON MARINO

For all the cant that sports should be fun, they are mighty serious to many young people. In their minor classic, The Game of Life, William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman point out that in small liberal-arts institutions, as many as one in three students participate in intercollegiate athletics. While some academics sneer at the importance of sports on college campuses, there are students whose choice of college is largely determined by the desire to play for a particular coach or the

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