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Articles by Michael McBroom
Wendler, McBroom: Considering a Texas athletic conference
(Editor's note: Sixth and final in a series on Intercollegiate Athletics.) Texas is home to 25 Division I athletics programs ranging in size from Texas A&M University (big) to Houston Baptist University (small). Nine football teams compete at the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. In addition, there are five NCAA Division II programs in Texas with football teams. If reimagined, a single conference comprising FCS Texas institutions is possible.
Walter Wendler Michael McBroom student-athletes and family life
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series on Intercollegiate Athletics. Jerry Kill was Southern Illinois University’s (SIU) football coach from 2001 until 2007, during the same time President Wendler was SIU’s chancellor. Recruiting student-athletes was one of Coach Kill’s greatest strengths. He told Chancellor Wendler that before committing to a particular student, he always wanted to have a meal where the student lived, with the student’s family, whatever that may have been.
Wendler, McBroom: Sorting through challenges confronting intercollegiate athletics
(Editor's Note: Third in a series on the place and purpose of intercollegiate athletics). The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is big (720 full-time employees and $1.06 billion in annual revenue). For decades the weight of dense bureaucracy and its impact on millions of intercollegiate athletes and multiplied millions of fans has been the altar on which institutional autonomy was sacrificed.
Wendler, McBroom: The place of athletics on a college campus
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series on intercollegiate athletics). The significant changes being thrust upon college athletics in recent months have markedly reshaped the concept of student-athletes. Or have they? Ronald A.
Wendler, McBroom: Looking at 21st-century intercollegiate athletics
(Editor's note: First in a series on Intercollegiate Athletics.) The impact of intercollegiate athletics on universities and colleges around our nation is undeniable. More than 460,000 students compete in intercollegiate athletics, the vast majority using their athletic ability to help fund, in part or total, the cost of their undergraduate degree. In Division I, college athletes make up just 6% of total undergraduate enrollment.
33 Meters: Zane Grothe’s Turnaround Story
Most professional swimmers are living between two worlds: the swimming world and the “real” world. As any competitive swimmer knows, life in and out of the pool is a juggling act, one that gets even harder when you are no longer a student-athlete and have to pay your own bills. This is the turnaround story of Zane Grothe: U.S. National Champion, Team USA member, and Fike Swim ambassador. It’s hard to imagine now, but that was American Record Holder Zane Grothe in March 2015.
2017 U.S. World Trials Preview: Wilimovsky's Time In Men's 1500
Connor Jaeger has long been the dominant force the U.S. in the men’s 1500. After breaking through and finishing 6th at the Olympics in 2012, he steadily improved through the quad before taking silver last summer in Rio. He also won silver at the 2015 World Championships, gold at the 2014 Pan Pacs, and lowered the American Record from 14:45 to 14:39 over his four year tenure.
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