Without the figure for non-football playing young adult males, this number is useless.
Anyone stupid enough to play the game probably had brain damage to begin with. I hope the whole sport dies along with basketball and other “professional” sports.
Far to many parents push their children into sports in the hope that their child will be talented enough to get a scholarship to college. Not all but many of those kids never graduate. It’s a complete waste of time. Their time would be better spent hitting the books.
I gave up on collegiate and professional sports when I saw in 1981, first hand, the massive cheating and corruption within the ACC to keep functional illiterates eligible for play with bogus classes and falsified grades. The school used atheletes like Kleenex to make money and then discarded them when they are no longer useful.
REAL men. Whatever! Monosyllabic and steroid riddled out retards are not what I’d call real men. John Urschel is the exception, not the rule.
I met one starter for my Alma mater’s football team who got a bachelors in mechanical engineering and a masters in ME. The rest never graduated. I respected him.
I’d rather see games played by real student athletes.
While sports programs die they should also kill off the bogus paper (degree) mills and return to classic western civ. liberal arts or STEM majors and get the .gov out of student loans.