College football brings money into the University. Plain and simple. Ever been to a University football game? Lots of fans, alumni and students... all cheering for their team and paying ticket prices/food/soda etc... Now, let’s be fair. If you want to eliminate college football, then eliminate basketball, lacrosse, golf, volleyball, softball, baseball, and every other sport that offers full or partial scholarships. It won’t happen because football and basketball pays for the other sports. Ever been to a college softball game? Plenty of seats available...
Couldn’t make the team, huh Buzzie old boy?
FUBUZZ!!
I think college football should be banned because the only school my alma mater can beat is Iowa.
And exactly who is it that the author thinks should assume the authority to ban football?
And exactly who is it that the author thinks should assume the authority to ban football?
Ban college football?
The man must be clinically insane....
College football is uniquely American...
Eliminating college football won’t do anything to increase attendance at women’s sporting events.
Laughable. Eliminate college football and see how much revenue is lost by each college/university. It would be staggering.
I am also going to call you on the opinion that college football doesn’t have to do with academics. Division 1 (i.e. the super schools like Alabama, LSU etc...) may have lower GPA requirements but do some research on Division 2 and 3 before jumping to conclusions. Check out just how amazingly high a GPA and SAT score has to be before the boy’s tapes are even reviewed. I have personally known several kids who got Division 1A, and Division 2 scholarships (full and partial). Intelligent, hard working kids with great GPA’s... that were given the opportunity to go to college. Believe me, they work for their paid tuition... everyday.
“Football only provides the thickest layer of distraction in an atmosphere in which colleges and universities these days are all about distraction, nursing an obsession with the social well-being of students as opposed to the obsession that they are there for the vital and single purpose of learning as much as they can to compete in the brutal realities of the global economy.”
Interesting. If the author really believed this, then we’d ban all student activities that did not contribute to being competitive in the global economy. I wonder how many majors would survive that standard?
College football is nothing but an excuse to increase black enrollment in the schools. It’s affirmative action cloaked in sports. That’s all it is.
Get rid of the liberal indoctrination first.
“Coaches such as Nick Saban of the University of Alabama ......make obscene millions.”
Must be an Allbarn fan.
Hey Buzzie, banning college basketball would benefit all mankind. No Niki Riots!
With a name like Buzz Bissinger, I picture him as the guy in the locker room whose job was to collect dirty jock straps. No wonder he’s carrying a grudge.
Cool! More time and exposure for Lacrosse!
Mark
People who propose banning college football should be tarred and feathered and then forced to watch non-stop soccer.
Much of what happens in ‘higher education’ has nothing to do with academics. I don’t think that athletes should be able to take TV remote control 101 and get a degree, but I do think that athletics and education can coexist in a very synergistic way. Does this guy think that education will get better if there is no football? If so, why? It’s quite possible that alumni donations would go down, and thus for tuition to go up.