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Record W7109961964 · doi:10.26522/jess.v11i.5007

The Role of Football and Stadia Construction in Institutional Ascension

2025· article· W7109961964 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Emerging Sport Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSports, Gender, and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFootballInstitutionState (computer science)Work (physics)Competition (biology)College athletics

Abstract

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The present case study offers a descriptive history on the construction and renovation of Boise State University’s football athletic grounds and stadia from 1932 through 1975 to better understand their contribution in the institutional history of the school. In particular, the current study uniquely shows the role football and stadia played within the ascension of the institution from a private junior college to large public state university. Boise State is one among several institutions that transitioned from junior college to state college and then university status. To realize the goals of the current study, information was sought on important stakeholders and groups, environmental or contextual factors, and decisions that influenced the construction of various football grounds and/or stadia at Boise State. Next, the present work examined how football and competition grounds or stadia at Boise State impacted the perception of the institution and facilitated its transition from junior college to major university status. Overall, the current essay legitimizes previous assumptions offered by other institutional histories that football and its stadia helped to ensure school survival. Moreover, football and stadia could serve as a strategic asset within an institution’s ascension from institute, normal college, community college, junior college, and state college to university status.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.619
Threshold uncertainty score0.949

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it