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Why College Football Should Be Banned
from the Wall Street Journal
The costs are high, the benefits to students are low, argues Buzz Bissinger, and academics pay the price.
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Sports Journalist, Daily Beast columnist and Friday Night Lights author
Harry Gerald "Buzz" Bissinger argues that College Football is an expensive and pointless excess that should be banned.
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"College Football has no academic purpose. Which is why it needs to be banned."
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"If the vast majority of major college football programs made money, the argument to ban football might be a more precarious one. But too many of them don't-to the detriment of academic budgets."
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"There is a false concept of the football student-athlete that the NCAA endlessly tries to sell, when any major college player will tell you that the demands of the game, a year-round commitment, makes the student half of the equation secondary and superfluous."
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"Call me the Grinch. But I would much prefer students going to college to learn...rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it."