[LS]

I urge Freepers to read our chapter on the 1960s in "A Patriot's History of the United States." We predicted this---when money meets students meets leftist profs, the result is there can be no education. We argue that the riots and destruction at universities in the 1960s would have occurred without Vietnam. It was a convenient catalyst, but those collapses were inevitable given the vast and rapid expansion of leftist profs (partly in reaction to "McCarthyism" and the firing of profs with commie-related pasts).

What NO ONE seems to be commenting on is that the key event was that it was the FOOTBALL team that effected the change and once football programs everywhere---especially at OSU, Texas, Georgia, FSU, FL and other schools that are particularly football focused---realize what power they really have, they will start shutting down schools or threatening not to play unless they get what they want. I don't think it will be PC changes. I think these teams will start demanding to get paid or force other non-PC changes. The point is, it won't be about "issues" or "violations of civil rights" but will be about $$.

[marron]

If football becomes politicized, it will collapse as people lose interest. (I think...)

[Walrus]

I say this as a lifelong, HUGE college football fan: if bigtime college football (and basketball, too, for that matter) ceased to exist tomorrow, America would be better off.

[Steve_Seattle]

Maybe if the football and basketball players are paid, the universities can stop pretending that they are bona-fide students, and just consider them hired hands, like janitors. (My apologies to those student-athletes who are actually legitimate students.)