Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: heye2monn
Along with too many games, there is an article on the website for the DeKalb County (IL) newspaper about the impact of Wednesday night football games on the college "amateur athletes".

Start with a TV deal for second-tier schools who want to be big names (like the MAC conference, which is what Northern Illinois U plays in; NIU is in DeKalb IL) and suddenly you have "Wednesday Night Football."

Like those college football players are supposed to get an actual education. Really?

18 posted on 11/18/2012 5:26:17 AM PST by Bernard ('He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else' - Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]


To: Bernard

Good point. “Scholar-athlete” is a joke.

When games start showing on television on Thursday and now, as you say, Wednesday, they blur together and lose their uniqueness. After a while, the fan says cares?


66 posted on 11/18/2012 9:50:25 AM PST by heye2monn (A)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]

To: Bernard

Good point. “Scholar-athlete” is a joke.

When games start showing on television on Thursday and now, as you say, Wednesday, they blur together and lose their uniqueness. After a while, the fan says cares?


67 posted on 11/18/2012 9:50:30 AM PST by heye2monn (A)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson