The motion being debated is "Ban college football." Arguing on behalf of the motion (i.e., college football should be banned) are Buzz Bissinger, author of what some consider to be one of the best books ever written about football, Friday Night Lights, and Canadian-born Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Arguing against it are Tim Green, who is a former professional football player for the Atlanta Falcons, a lawyer, and the author of 26 books (I'm not kidding), and Jason Whitlock, who played college football at Ball State, is a columnist for FoxSports.com, and who won a National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation in 2008, the first sport writer to win such an award.
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I think they should pay the college players (with a salary cap)...let's face it, it's basically minor league ball for the NFL and no one really uses their scholarship for attending class. And, if you paid them, maybe they could save a little money for those who don't go on to the NFL...then they'd have the money to go back to school!
ReplyDeleteWith a scholarship, when your time is up, you're done and you've lost the opportunity to get an education.
There is a movement to do this, and it may be in the near future that college basketball and football players will get paid.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the salary idea as well
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