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From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: No decorum in Nebraska
Message-ID: <492@ihuxw.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 16:59:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 16:59:20 1983
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I agree totally with Mark on this one.  The college
football programs are nothing but a minor league for the
NFL, just as basketball teams are the training grounds for
NBA-type athletes.  Let`s face reality.  Plus football has
got to be the greatest avenue of revenue for colleges
out of all sports offered, with basketball again coming
in second.  There are plenty of athletes at college that
barely meet admissions standards, and it`s an unproven
but VERY well rumored fact that athletes get breaks when
it comes to grades.  Are these people really learning
more than how to run a double-reverse or become a top
nothch pulling guard?  Of all the football players I`ve
known, I can only think of 1 who was a top student (3.0
or greater).  Most of the ones I knew loved to party and
cause all kinds of havoc on the weekends AND during the
week.  I`ve even heard of an extreme case at a Division
III school, where the football coach tried to pull all
the strings he could to get one of his top running backs
declared scholastically eligible for the fall term so he
could play football.  Why was he ineligible?  All he did
was flunk ALL his classes the previous term, but all the
coach was worried about was winning the conference.  This
is a VERY extreme case, but I`d bet there are plenty of
other incidents of this ilk going on every year.  Why
don`t the pros just donate X amount of dollars to the
NCAA to give to schools to offer to "students" to play
football, and let the colleges and universities give
the scholarship monies that they were directing to the
footballers to students with good academic records.
After all, they are called SCHOLAR-ships.

Tom O`Connor