College Sports - Creepy and Expensive

I'm no doubt the only one, but I find the fanatical worship of college sports creepy, and I think colleges spend WAY too much money on them.

How about we separate "Church and State" by separating Colleges into Academic and Athletic schools? Maybe not all sports, but certainly Football and Basketball are institutions that don't require academic affiliations.

Why would I see the American Athletic Apple-cart upset?

Well, I'd like to see America offer free college and technical college to all. That means minorities wouldn't HAVE sacrifice their children in the name of COLLEGE SPORTS. The economy would win, minorities would win, there would be a middle class again.

SPORTS FANS would have their own TEAM COLLEGE that could spend all the money it wanted on stadiums, endorsements, (don't forget drugs and hookers). There are only a few jobs in professional sports, a handful of young men get drafted to basketball and football teams every year. Let those who want that life go for it, just not in a college setting.

These Junior League sports teams can call themselves college teams, if they want. Whatever floats the boats of the sweaty old men who leer at young (mostly minority) men, calling them racial slurs and pretending it's about Higher Education, not betting, endorsements, drugs and hookers.

This would allow colleges to concentrate on Academics!

Imagine that! The price of college tuition would drop until it was free, or close to free.

Because, let's face it, a College Education is expensive MAINLY because the Sports Programs get all the money. Why should Jill Average pay for something she'll never do, (Football or Basketball) for the next 20 years of her life, so some handsome, athletic minority boys can be exploited by a bunch of old, sweaty, leering rich white men?

Jill wants a degree, AND a house for herself and her husband and children. Not a 20 year mortgage for a substandard education because SPORTS TEAM needed cars, stadiums, drugs and hookers.

It's silly for hundreds of students like our Jill to pay the inflated salary of a Rick Pitino or Jerry Sandusky - and their legal bills when the abuses come to light. Cut the Football and Basketball teams free, they earn plenty of money on their own and let Academics go their own way.