I don't get college football. Unless your kid is on the team, who cares. It's college. It's football. So what? And it annoys me that there is such a focus on this sport; people claim it's about the college but then why no passion about other sports at the same school? These kids are there for an education first sand to play a GAME second. I think we all forget that. These boys are put on a pedestal for a game. But what about academics? If a quarter of that athletic budget were spent on quality pay for professors, science labs, research grants, etc we would be so much better off. Sorry, former college coach and professor here on her soap box...
@allymansfield:
When was the last time you saw 80,000+ people of a college show up to support a science fair, a offering of a research grant, a professors raise? Besides, the athletic budget feeds itself and other programs within the University. If you were really a coach, you would understand all that.
College athletes, for the most part, are not there to earn an education. That might have been the case back in the day, but not anymore. They go to college to play...an education is a bonus. I'm willing to bet that 80% of athletes today wouldn't even go to college if athletics wasn't part of their lives.
Just remember this: without the football money, professors salaries, grants and science labs would decrease.
*drop mic
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