Buzz Bissinger Wants to Ban College Football: Agree?
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2012/05/08 08:17:57
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Buzz Bissinger, author of "Friday Night Lights" (football fiction) and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, argues for the elimination of college football. I love college football, but I mostly agree with Mr. Bissinger. I don't want taxpayers funding the football teams of public universities to compete against private universities. Taxpayers rarely get a return on their investment by subsidizing college football, since most college players don't end up in professional football and pay taxes back to the state that funded their education.
Private colleges cannot compete with the million dollar salaries of public universities like UCLA. University of California at Berkeley paid head coach Jeff Tedfor over $2.3 million dollars of taxpayer money, which made Tedford the highest paid public employee in California.
Mr. Bissinger writes:
Private colleges cannot compete with the million dollar salaries of public universities like UCLA. University of California at Berkeley paid head coach Jeff Tedfor over $2.3 million dollars of taxpayer money, which made Tedford the highest paid public employee in California.
Mr. Bissinger writes:
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
That's because college football has no academic purpose. Which is why it needs to be banned. A radical solution, yes. But necessary in today's times.
The author of Friday Night Lights says the costs are high, and the benefits to students are low.
Read More: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023047...
Geez, let a person get somethong out of a public school education. lol