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- Title
"Has-Beens" and "Wanna-Bes": Transition Experiences of Former Major College Football Players.
- Authors
Parker, Kathy B.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the experiences of former college football players upon exiting intercollegiate careers. The qualitative methodology of in-depth, dialogic interviewing was employed. Participants were 7 former NCAA Division I-A collegiate football players who completed their eligibility within the last 3 years and who were at least 8 months removed from collegiate competition. These participants were not under contract with any professional teams at the time of their interviews. Findings centered around the following themes: (a) the transition from high school to elite-level college football, and the change in the relationships participants had with their coaches; (b) the learning of behavior not positively transferable to the "real world"; (c) the power and control issues surrounding the major college football setting, and the manner in which participants perceived, and responded to, being controlled; and (d) the ways participants were experiencing posteligibility life.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLLEGE football players; COLLEGE athletes; QUALITATIVE research; SPORTS psychology; APPLIED psychology; SOCIOLOGY of sports; COLLEGE sports; COACH-athlete relationships; COLLEGE sports coaching; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sport Psychologist, 1994, Vol 8, Issue 3, p287
- ISSN
0888-4781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/tsp.8.3.287