Well my school (Old Dominion) just jumped full force into division 1A football and I donated a good bit of money to make that happen and the school is planning a stadium upgrade in the tens of millions. Furthermore, we just bolted our regional conference for a national one. I can tell you if they ban college football, there will be riots in Norfolk. Texas and Alabama would probably seccede.
Football may change, but it’s not going anywhere.
It’s too ingrained into the American culture. You would see full out riots before you would see in banned.
Just think about it, what would people do on Thangsgiving to avoid talking to drunk Uncle Jack? Americans NEED football.
The only thing I would like is to quit calling it College football.
It is no longer for the students it is big business. Still don’t want it banned.
I like the idea of reform in that it could lead to more football.
Right now, you have athletes who pretend to be college students, who after they graduate are discarded like used facial tissues, with only a tiny minority becoming professionals. The rest are condemned to minimum wage jobs after losing four productive years with no pay at all.
Instead, universities should hire them as athletes to represent the school playing football, as “minor league” teams that are affiliated with professional teams. They are not students and can have an entire career as a minor leaguer, as professional athletes, earning enough to live on and even do well with a school sponsored endowment investment retirement fund.
This would cost the universities a lot of “free money” they get from the sweat and injuries of their athletes, which is very unfair if you think about it. If an athlete results in a university making several hundred thousand dollars, then he should get something out of the deal.
And spare us all the crocodile tears of “NCAA rules” and “the spirit of amateur sports”, which is hooey and they know it. They get all the money and the ex-athlete gets to live as a cripple on skid row for the rest of their life isn’t very fair.
OK...don’t bann it...just pay the semi-pros who are already playing.
It’s all a subset of the NFL...those guys aren’t in college for an education...so give them a living while they pretend they are students.
Without college football, millions of Southerners will have nothing to talk about.
If inroads are made by the nanny-staters into stopping youth football (it’s for the children, ya know) it will metastisize. Then it will just be a matter of time before it eats away both college and professional ball.