More great coverage of our very own Brian Cadman's research about coaching success and academic success. New research from Cadman, with Harvard University’s Christopher Avery, INSEAD’s Gavin Cassar shows that DI coaches for revenue sports - are less likely to get fired if their players are also doing well academically. It’s easy to measure winners on the court. Villanova, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Syracuse universities [...]
March Madness is coming to its always-riveting and often surprising end, and the impacts of the nation’s best college basketball teams on society are apparent. While it’s easy to cheer on the athletic prowess of NCAA basketball and football players, it’s easy to forget that they’re students, too. A new paper co-authored by Eccles School Associate Professor and David Eccles Faculty Fellow Brian Cadman [...]
Big fan of March Madness? Ready for the Final 4? Research from our very own Brian Cadman shows the correlation between a student's academic progress rate (APR) and the job security of college football and men's college basketball coaches. The paper was the subject of a story by Jake New in this week's Inside Higher Ed. He begins: Big-time college football and men’s basketball coaches [...]