"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
College football is a disgrace, or would seem so to old traditionalists.
They've trashed the old, traditional conference affiliations for business purposes. [It was supposed to be an extracurricular activity, not a business.]
Now they've got a hot mess, but modern fans are cool with it.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
College football has not been an extracurricular activity in 60 years. There is more parity in the game than ever.
The game, as it is played today, provided a huge number of scholarships for people who might not be able to go to college any other way.
And for many successful program, it provides additional money to the schools. The schools like it. The fans like it.
That's true. I've heard these scholarship athletes interviewed on television, and many of them cannot manage a cogent sentence in the English language.
They're all astronomy majors--i.e., they're taking up space in school.
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale play in a reasonably respectable college football conference,
I suppose,
although they wisely sat this year out.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
No doubt there are plenty who do not take advantage of the opportunity that is presented to them.
But plenty do. Mac Jones, the QB for Alabama that just shredded Ohio State to win the championship, finished his undergrad degree with a 4.0 GPA, and got his Master's in December. There were several players who graduated in December.
When it is all said & done, whether the player gets an education is up to the player.
That's fair, but many players are recruited who didn't do the secondary school work to succeed in college.
Universities weren't created to teach grammar. Good grammar is required just to get into college unless you're a recruited athlete.
[Or at least you had to know it back in my day in the sixties.]
That means you can speak excellent English to a sideline reporter before you ever attended a class.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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