He was a football player at the school
And he calls himself Spartacus. More like Farticus.
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.
I don’t care if football completely goes away.
Didnt Kurt Vonenngut write about this in one of his novels?
“Two young men grow up in the same neighborhood...” Why not change Booker’s scenario to two children of different races. One gets into a better school and ends up with the better job because of his race. That seems like a bigger problem than rewarding athletic achievement and talent.
I used to be one of the world’s largest sports nuts. Watched everything that came on TV. I payed sports. I was a football, baseball, softball and basketball referee for over 25 years, doing high school both here in the States and in Germany. Also covered tons and tons of military sports games in my 20+ years in the Army. Countless games over those 25+ years. But NOW, I am done. I no longer watch the NFL, NBA, barely any MLB at all. Haven’t watched a complete game there in years. I do not watch college sports much any longer. A little football here and there. My school, Alabama, won the football championship. I didn’t even watch it. When Coach Bryant was there, I would not have missed a game. But, not any longer. I was watching some soccer. Now ESPN has the German and Italian leagues and don’t put much but lousy games on early Sunday a.m. Italian games. I have about had it with the English league and the kneel down before the game starts and the NBC bogus we love BLM mob. I don’t really give a crap if the whole mess crashes and burns a slow death. I DON’T CARE ANYMORE!!!! To hell with them. I am tired of them trying to tell me I am a racists and am finished with the whole mob. I’ll watch cartoons first.
Sounds like Spartacus Booker is asking for the creation of a minor league in football like baseball already has. There’s something to be said for removing fake degrees for fake students on football scholarships.
Sure, destroy this too. Why not. Get all the good little commies playing soccer, then we can come together as a global community ruled by the likes of Cory Booker!
I never thought I’d exit this world shooting, but it just could happen.
I DEMAND half of everything Bill Gates has, and I want it NOW...!
Perhaps I got up on the right side of the bed this morning and this metaphor is absolute garbage. On the other hand, it fits my sentiment about education and intercollegiate athletics. It works in that it aligns with physics and quite simply, I have no emotions about physics. It is the way it is.
I don't care about college sports anymore, even though I was a student athlete in college. The experience today is completely different from when I was in school. I really do not wish today's experience upon anyone knowing what it was like 40 years ago. In retrospect, I could have done without sports. I do now and my life is full.
Let the leftists grind education to a halt and it will swing back.