Athletic Personnel in the Academic Marketplace

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Abstract
The connection between organizational prestige and career contingencies is well documented with respect to the academic stratification system in American higher education. The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether the relationship between organizational prestige and career mobility of scholars obtains in the case of another group of individuals in the academic community. namely, college coaches. Findings showed a close relationship between organizational prestige and career contingencies of coaches and suggested that the interorganizational mobility patterns of collegiate athletic personnel are similar to those of collegiate academic personnel in various disciplines.