Storyline: Think about how running into someone constantly damages the body. Think about all the players who don’t have a shot at professional sports. Then think about the enormous amount of money colleges are making off a sport to build their campus empires.
Are you tired yet? Are you fed up with seeing “free labor” when it translates into so many injuries?
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Every weekend I observe STUDENT after STUDENT get injured in one of the most dangerous games in North America–for free–while ADULT after ADULT pockets profit without any fear of risk.
How great it must feel to benefit from it? You can campaign for coaching if you like–if you feel it’s essential to success. I’m of the belief that coaching matters much more in professional sports. Recruiting is the end all to success in college sports. If you can have a roster of 5-star recruits, you can pretty much can bank on winning games. So credit Saban, Meyer, and Miles, if you like, but their success hinges more on to who plays than on what play was called.
Think about how running into someone constantly damages the body. Think about all the players who don’t have a shot at professional sports. Then think about the enormous amount of money colleges are making off a sport to build their campus empires.
Did Nick Chubb’s injury seem like a fair trade? Your thoughts and prayers to thee injured is one thing but, in reality, it does nothing–not when it’s compared to being able to afford health insurance, being able to provide for one’s family, and being able to invest into a brighter future.
We create BS media coverage to praise coaches and athletic directors for building rosters. We praise the ingeniousness of the college football playoff system.
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We pretend that an education is just as valuable as the money that could be made playing “amateur sports.” We pretend as if a degree ensures anything in this country.
We speak all of this hogwash, while one of the most heavily promoted and idolized movie is about a pioneer of the personal computer revolution who, by the way, is a college dropout. So I ask are you this: Are you tired of the same lie?
Are you tired of players being taken advantage of?
Are you ready to admit that college football players should be compensated?
Or, on the other hand, have the bodies not piled up enough for you?
