- College football is the driving force behind in-person classes.
- College football has become one of the main drivers of higher education.
- There is NO REASON AT ALL why higher education depends on college football.
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We're been socialized into it, but the entire situation is maddening.
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I love college sports. Always have. I am a huge fan and it's something I have to wrestle with, my part in this whole thing.
I also love the school pride, how it unites people. But what it has become is simply insidious.
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Many will fold. Others will face even worsening austerity.
It's the financial situation that has been created that has made this a "necessary" risk.
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Administrators treating it like a business, not to mention legislatures using austerity and "economic goals" has made this an incredibly fragile house of cards.
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Think about that. Look at it. Chew on it.
None of this makes any sense.
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Unbelievable amounts of money.
But it also needs reworked, because this current system was unstable, exploitative, and completely flawed.
This crisis has been building FOR YEARS. The pandemic only hastened it.
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We have to diagnose these systemic problems, reckon with what went so wrong, and change course.
We don't have much time.
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The through-line is hypercapitalism, the need for unending greed and ceaseless “growth.” Everything is out of whack and needs massive restructuring.
We need a reflection, a reconsidering. We have to change course and it needs to happen as soon as possible.