Without football, the other sports won’t even exist. Say goodbye to Title IX and all of womens sports. Say goodbye to all the athletic scholarships.
Come to think of it, maybe this is a good thing.
Then sports will be a break from a hard weeks work.
College sports are just farm teams for the sports/entertainment/media complex and the sports betting industries. Kick 'em off campus and within four years, nobody there would care.
Seems all I ever heard for decades is that college football is what attracted the big names into the college and the sport and what kept most colleges viable regardless of all the other costly programs and without football there would be no other sports on campus as it usually paid for all the excesses of the other less profitable sports and etc..
Yes. Shut it down. End the free farm system to the anti-white NBA and NFL. Stop the tax subsidies and worshiping of morons.
All sports like this need to go. Keep those dedicated student athletes who get real degrees. Kick out the thugs.
The football and mens’ basketball teams are the cash cow for the major schools. Which is why P5 schools pay their coaches millions.
Where I went to college still doesn’t have a football team, but when I was going there the university president was trying hard to get one. Fortunately, everyone else realized that with our size of college a football team would likely be a huge money loser and fought against it.
It is a major income for many universities.
College football is a profit center for most universities.
Some smaller programs are losing money this year since they couldn’t play a “money game” against a bigger opponent, but traditionally football money carries the womens’ sports and most of the remaining men’s programs.
get rid of it
It may not make economic sense, but neither does buying an ice cream cone.
It can also be said that too many Americans have lost perspective on post-secondary education. Multi-million dollar programs exist in academia to teach subjects that end in "-Studies", such as General Studies, Gender Studies, Women Studies and Black Studies. They consume vast resources to pay for physical buildings and faculty while indoctrinating generations that go into jobs payed by tax payers.
Education used to develop minds full of mush into minds that could critically think and full of enough knowledge that people knew there was much more to learn. Education used to prepare people for careers. (Note: it still does in some subjects, but that's where perspective has been lost - those subjects are subordinate to liberal studies programs.)
It seems everything surrounding colleges and universities, whether sports or academics, has turn into big business when most running those institutions are against capitalism. The one thing that they don't get about business is the notion of providing a superior product that is affordable. That's where their Marxist principles come into play - they expect government to pay. Which really means taxpayers pay for it.
It's time to put them on a diet. No more taxpayer funding of colleges/universities. No more government backed loans for tuition. Make students and their families go and see a loan officer at a bank and answer the question, "How are you going to pay this loan back with a degree Gender Studies?"
This entire line of thought leads to another diet. Every job in government, or is funded by tax dollars, that requires one of these bogus degrees should be defunded. It's a perfect acid-test to shrink the size of government. Go to HR and get the list of job positions and their qualifications. If the qualifications call for one of these Marxists majors then make everyone holding that position redundant. Hire a thousand clerks from temp agencies for two weeks to get the job done. Pink slips can follow a week later. It's a great way to get rid of the deep state, reduce government intrusion in our lives, cut taxes and ultimately pay down the debt. (All of these things used to be goals of conservatives.)
Always have been a huge college football fan, but they now have ruined it too. I used to follow college basketball too, but stopped caring about it years ago. Time to end all athletic scholarships, make college sports truly amateur sports again. If some kid wants to play professionally, turn pro when you get out of high school, college is not the place for them.