By Laura Wilcox

According to Victoria Jackson, PhD, a sports historian at Arizona State University who researches the intersection of sport and society, who was also a cross country and track and field athlete for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Arizona State university and who is a professional runner endorsed by Nike, the history of college sports has always been like this. “It’s a history of constant change,” she said in a recent podcast with Future U’s Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn.