I am a college football.
As a kid in the 80s, I went to all the Nebraska home games from 1980 to 1994 (except for 5).
However, when my older sister when to college I met some of the players. Some were great people. Some should never passed high school.
When I went to school, I met more. There was a great running back for Iowa State that I got to know. A wonderful man. He was, however, illiterate.
College sports has been nuts for a long time. As a taxpayer, I have to question the amount of money we are spending on this game, for little return.
Folks - no tax payer money is needed for college football.
College football pays 100% of its own expenses, and then it subsidizes all the other college sports teams (except basketball) that NEVER make enough money to pay their own way.
I question the entire value premise behind college, period. Not just college sports, which is just an entertainment business after all.
Nothing about college sports is about education. None of it.
It’s a business. College, I don’t know what that’s about anymore.
I would guess that “all of the money” being spent has gone through an Internal Rate of Return analysis. The people running these huge football factories are not financially stupid. If they are offering huge salaries, they know they will make it back, plus 15-20% within 5 years.
Its not the universities that should anger people, its the NCAA. I did some work for them. It was like working for Stalin and the Mafia at the same time.
Weeeel, maybe. But remember, the big money in college football supplies the $$$ that supports all the other sports programs at the school. Girls Field Hockey, anyone?