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Originally Posted by legion
So football has basically become a side-business that universities engage in, that is slowly overtaking academics as their reason for existing?
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Slowly overtaking? That's your spin, Not sure how you got there.
College football has been a big deal for over 100 years.
It started off as bragging rights, then as a recruitment tool to be used in the competition over the best prospective students. with the advent of television the $$$$ became a factor.
Colleges have had bigger football stadiums than the NFL for longer than I've been around.
Bowl games became very profitable, television revenues went through the roof, and sports became a revenue-generating SIDE business, run in parallel with academia.
And with the slanted biased crap they are brainwashing students with nowadays, I'd say the students get a better edumacation on the ball field than in the classroom.
How about we look at the ENORMOUS and RIDICULOUS salaries they are paying the so-called professors to spew hate and anti-American sentiment for 20 hours a week?
The average salary for a professor at Columbia is $236,300.
That's about $200k more than they are worth and i am being kind.