College football is really great. I think I’ll just park myself there.
It’s not like you’re losing anything of value.
I used to love college ball.
Dad had Nebraska season tickets for 30 some years. Went to every home game (minus five) from age 5 till 18.
To say I loved it is an understatement.
Then I met the players. Met the coaches. Saw that while some were great people, many could do nothing but play ball. They had zero skills doing anything else. Went to another Big 12 school, and saw that while they prided themselves on academics, they would pass ball players who could not read just to get them on the field. In short, they (the schools) eat up my tax dollars to be a farm team for the NFL and the NBA.
Most of those kids shouldn’t be in school, or rather most SHOULD have been in school since age 8, but they played ball. There are student athletes that are truly students. However, most of the “good” ones are just athletes. They have been coddled and protected since a young age and can’t function very well in a venue where they are not special.
Once they get hurt or stop playing, they are nobody. And that destroys many of them.