Posted on 02/03/2021 4:56:34 AM PST by Kaslin
He was a football player at the school
And he calls himself Spartacus. More like Farticus.
Exactly
That’s really sad.
But it doesn’t require the government nosing into college athletics.
The government needs to get out of restricting uninfected citizens. It is a tyranny.
The suicide had other problems. Obviously.
Unless there’s more to that story, I’m going to suggest that the father was derelict in his responsibilities as a parent if the kid had that kind of idiotic, narrow obsession on a stupid game.
Waving magic wands, picking winners and losers, redistributing wealth all over the place.
These people are out of control.
Thank God we send our children to Catholic School. They had classes most of this year & they had football. It kept my 14 year old sane. He was having a terrible time with online classes. Even though he’s a well adjusted, straight A, popular kid at school.
These lock downs & school closures are child abuse!
What happens to all the other sports and their athletes when the profits from football are taken away? Bye, bye swimming, volleyball, tennis, soccer and wrestling along with everything other than football and basketball.
I have a far simpler solution. End all athletic scholarships for college sports. Make them true amateurs again. If some poor kid wants to play for money, let them turn pro as soon as they can, stop the farce that these college kids are there for an “education”.
At most major universities, the athletic director is the most powerful member of the faculty. Moreso than the president, or the deans of the various schools.
Nationalization craze of the communists reaches out and touches sports. Sports withers and dies,
There are 130 teams in Division I college football. These are schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Of course, there are other colleges that play football in smaller divisions, but the 130 schools in the FBS are what most people refer to as college football. These are the games you see on TV, playing in bars and restaurants.
Caste Football counts a total of 764 white starters, which averages out to about 6 per team (each team has 22 total starters, 11 on offense and 11 on defense). This means whites are 26.5 percent of all FBS starting players. This is 2.5 percent fewer (a drop of 67 players) since 2018. Most of the other starters are black, though Polynesians are heavily represented in certain programs such as the University of Hawaii, Brigham Young University, University of Utah and other, mainly West Coast programs. Hispanics and Asians are rare.
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2019/09/the-vanishing-white-college-football-player/
Gory Booger is an idiot.
Seems to work for baseball and hockey. Revert all college athletics to the club level.
Not only that, notice the discrepancy between female and male athletes. And will Trans athletes have to take female salaries if they play with females?
Know what my kid did at college? He studied and became an engineer. His school was small, very specialized and highly regarded in his field.
He didn’t go to one football game, nor basketball. That’s because the school was there as a school, not a glorified game. They have no athletic program, unless you count the intramural Ultimate Frisbee team.
I have very little respect for people who’s entire lives revolve around a football team where their only contribution is buying a T-shirt.
I don’t care if football completely goes away.
Didnt Kurt Vonenngut write about this in one of his novels?
You don’t think there are scholarships for baseball and hockey players?
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