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re: Wall Street Journal: Why College Football should be banned
Posted on 5/7/12 at 9:47 am to ohiovol
Posted on 5/7/12 at 9:47 am to ohiovol
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What if major colleges glorified academics (you know, stuff like math & science) rather than sports?
What if ghetto kids tried as hard to become Neil Tyson as do to become Michael Jordan or Barry Sanders?
Neither of these phenomena will ever happen until colleges rid themselves of televised sports (which means not in our lifetimes).
You do realize that people will still watch and idolize pro athletes, right?
That's fine. Idolize away. That has no bearing on whether schools should scrap football.
But just think if schools promoted academics as much as they promote sports. Maybe in time barriers could be broken.
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Posted on 5/7/12 at 9:54 am to gizmoflak
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That's fine. Idolize away. That has no bearing on whether schools should scrap football.
But just think if schools promoted academics as much as they promote sports. Maybe in time barriers could be broken.
I really think you're making too many assumptions here. People watch college sports because they find them entertaining. Without college sports, people will just watch pro sports, or whatever else entertains them. Schools do promote their academics. We just don't hear about it as much because we're too busy watching sports.
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