Predicting Starting Status: Factors Contributing to the Success of Collegiate Football Players

The recruiting process in collegiate football calls for coaches to identify prospective student-athletes who would be most successful at their institution. Humara (2005) argues that while coaches are experts in the identification of physical attributes needed for success, they may lack the ability to identify psychological skills. Niednagel (2004) would contend that in addition to psychological and physical factors, environmental factors also contribute to the ability to succeed. Participants were 108 male football players (35 linemen, 47 tight ends/linebackers, 18 skilled players, 8 special teams) from 6 teams in a NCAA Division I Southeastern conference. Using multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant analysis, the current research attempted to determine factors from demographic information, the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, and the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28, that most accurately predicts starting status in collegiate football players. Results showed that there was a significant difference between starters and non-starters for age, high shcool size, and coping with adversity, predicting starting status 79.6% of the time.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Kinesiology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Health and Kinesiology

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Spieler, Martin John

Contributors dc:contributor

• A. Barry Joyner
• Barry Munkasy

• ETD
• Sport Psychology
• Collegiate Football
• Psychological
• Physical
• Environmental
• Brain Typing
• Success
• Recruiting

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/85

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1085