Economy and Elections, Student Athletes

Dr. David Berri is a professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. Dave has over forty published papers in Sports Economics to go along with two books. He also was the president of the North American Association of Sports Economists. He brags he watched all 16 games in the 2008 winless Lions season. Dr Berri talks about how the state of the economy will go a long way to decide the election. He also talks about a recent study from the Pac-12 on how student athletes struggle in academics because of the time spent playing their sport.