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From: thor@ihuxw.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: No Decorum in Nebraska
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 12:08:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 12:08:31 1983
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I really couldn't care less about Nebraska running up the score
of their game, BUT there does seem to be something OBSCENE
about any university that has 100 football players on their team!
(Even if it is just for home games). Sixty players seems like a
reasonable number. It must cost a fortune to support a program
that size-although I am sure Nebraska football brings in megadollars.
100 players sure sounds like overkill to me. Is this what the
founders of college athletics intended? Gee, I wonder how
many of the 100 players actually go to classes at the U. of N.?
Very few of the players currently in the NFL actually completed
their college degrees, yet all went to college. I am <reasonably> sure
the percentage is just as high for those who played in college
but didn't make the NFL, although I don't have figures on it.
I guess I wouldn't care if they didn't call it COLLEGE athletics
or COLLEGE football.
College football seems to imply that these are real students
just playing football for fun- practicing after a long day of classes,
playing on the weekend for school pride, and all that.
How about University Affiliated Minor-League Sports? 

				Mark Kohls
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