Wednesday, August 13, 2025
The new era in college football just doesn't feel right
This is the time of year that I start reading about college football in preparation for the season-- getting a sense of who will be good, what the best games will be, etc.
But this year those articles are disconcerting. "New QB lands two-year deal worth $3 million" is an actual headline. About college football.
Look, it has long been a fiction that big-time college football was actually connected to the actual academic institutions-- these were not guys who got out of Organic Chem class and headed over to practice. Universities across the country increasingly segregated the football players from the rest of the student body over the last 30 years or so. First it was dorms, then dining halls, then (basically) their own majors and academic curricula.
And now, the final frontier is crossed as they are straight-up paid. I get the argument for this in terms of rewarding people for the value they bring. I just liked it when it was easier to pretend that student-athletes were students first, or at all.
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I have watched 6 episodes of new Netflix series on SEC. Football. There has not been a single mention of majors, classes, grades or anything remotely related to academics. Nuff said.
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