re: #338 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

ESPN had their one 30-for-30 film on Marcus Dupree “The Best That Never Was”. And you realize that a lot of athletes follow that same trajectory but never quite rise as high.

And that film also made me disdain the college “football factory” system even more. I’ve never liked that two of the major sports (football and basketball) use the colleges as a minors system, and that it has essentially corrupted multiple levels of college athletics, and arguably some of the universities themselves.

I think that once really big money entered that corruption naturally followed. In my husband’s day, he was on full scholarship to play football but he also had to carry a full load with his engineering major and maintain a B average or better to keep playing and keep his scholarship to what is still one of the finest engineering schools in the world. I imagine those standards have been slipped considerably due to the money these days.