5/15/12

Part 1
Today the article was about why colleges should ban football as one of their atheletic programs.  Now, before I go any deeper into this subject, let me just say that whoever wrote this piece, is a complete and utter jerk.  How could you think such a thing?  Anyway, as I said before, the article is about why college should ban football due to the fact that they don't provide anything academically.  Also, because 43% of the 120 schools in the FBS lost money last year. Sounds like a personal problem to me.

According to the article, there aren't many pros.  But one that you can get from this article is that the students who are good at football, do get to move on and play professionally.  However, the article doesn't focus on the pros, purely the cons.  While reading, you find con after con after con.  Things such as students don't graduate, players don't make a dime off the profit, coaches make obscene amounts of money, it has nothing to do with academics.  But let me pose a question here, what sport does involve academics?

The alternative that the article suggests is actually quite stupid.  The author suggests that collegs should cut and ban football from their athletics and put that money towards sports where students actually have a higher graduation rate like swimming or track and field.  Let me tell you, I love to watch some college swimming and love it even more to watch track and feild.  Give me a break. 

In my opinion this guy needs to watch his mouth.  The only people who are going to agree with this guy are nerds who were never good at anything in life and over-protective "mommy's." Too many of the American people love football for someone to have the nerve to say such a thing.  To be honest, if I were this guy, I would take this article down and hide for a good amount of time. 

Part 2
In the last year, the top 2 college football teams were the two who played in the national championship.  They are Alabama and LSU.  These two schools are constantly at the top of the college football rankings, making them a dangerous team year in and year out. However, these schools are extremely hard to get into.  Wheather you play athletics or you just apply during your senior year of high school  You have to be the cream of the crop to get in, and even better if you want to play football at one of these schools.  Last year, Alabama made $45,221,741 and LSU made about the same.  The tution to get into Alabama is $17,825/year and the tution for LSU is 9,684.  A large difference between the two schools, but not on the football field.