Book excerpt: "Managing Intercollegiate Athletics combines real-life examples, relevant facts, solid theory, and important practitioner observations to help prepare you for a career in collegiate athletics. It provides a comprehensive overview of the management process in athletic departments, and it explores how conferences and governing organizations affect that process. Discussions and case studies look at how two- and four-year institutions grapple with management challenges. 'Practitioner Perspectives' (interviews with or contributions from noted athletic administrators) demonstrate how and why administrators make and implement their decisions and give you current, creative, problem-solving ideas."--Back cover.