SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
Time to clean up college football, as well as other college sports.
We are so engrossed with Michael Vick killing dogs for sport that we forget sometimes what sports are supposed to be. They are designed to be entertainment. They have become profitable empires, and I have no problem with that...on the professional level. I likewise understand and accept that college sports need to turn a profit to assist other areas of the university. Again, no problem with me.
Here is my problem.
Too many, damn near all, colleges have sunk to the level of transparency. If some guy can carry a football, let him in. Let him in even if he can't spell his own name, can't add single digit numbers, or otherwise has no business being on a college campus. I dare say that 80% or more of these guys would never think of being on a college campus if they didn't possess some modicum of athletic prowess. And that's sad. Many deserving scholars can't get in because some lunk whose only notable ability is to dunk a basketball or throw a football has their seat.
College sports should be about which university has the better athletes amid its students, not who can go find the best soon-to-be professional and provide them a couple of years of minor league experience for free.
And to back up my claim that the time has come, allow me to post links to ONE DAY'S worth of headlines from ESPN's college football section:
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One day. One sport. One site.
Clean up the colleges already. If some thug wants to play pro ball, let him play as soon as he turns 18. We don't need this stuff on our campuses. Some people go there to learn and to better themselves.
We are so engrossed with Michael Vick killing dogs for sport that we forget sometimes what sports are supposed to be. They are designed to be entertainment. They have become profitable empires, and I have no problem with that...on the professional level. I likewise understand and accept that college sports need to turn a profit to assist other areas of the university. Again, no problem with me.
Here is my problem.
Too many, damn near all, colleges have sunk to the level of transparency. If some guy can carry a football, let him in. Let him in even if he can't spell his own name, can't add single digit numbers, or otherwise has no business being on a college campus. I dare say that 80% or more of these guys would never think of being on a college campus if they didn't possess some modicum of athletic prowess. And that's sad. Many deserving scholars can't get in because some lunk whose only notable ability is to dunk a basketball or throw a football has their seat.
College sports should be about which university has the better athletes amid its students, not who can go find the best soon-to-be professional and provide them a couple of years of minor league experience for free.
And to back up my claim that the time has come, allow me to post links to ONE DAY'S worth of headlines from ESPN's college football section:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5
Link 6
Link 7
Link 8
Link 9
One day. One sport. One site.
Clean up the colleges already. If some thug wants to play pro ball, let him play as soon as he turns 18. We don't need this stuff on our campuses. Some people go there to learn and to better themselves.
Carr will never ever live that one down, the #5 team (though highly overrated) losing to a 1AA team, just wow. They owe a bit of gratitude to Buchholz for taking some headline space away from them yesterday with his no-no.