For all the anti college football geeks...

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I’m going to make your head explode. I went to Michigan, lived so close to the Big House I could hear the games, and never attended a single one.

LOL, no... but we all now know that you're a D & D pro. No heads expodeded here beyond laughter. 🤣

Nope, I don’t like any RPG. I was studying, going out with friends, working. A full life can be lived without sports.

Lol, what's your point? You spent time not studying doing other things but stuck it to the man by not going to a football game thousands of other people attended?

I will explain it to you, since you seem quite dim. College sports are not a necessary part of “the fabric of college life” or whatever platitude you spouted in your inane initial post. Even on a Big 10 campus.

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Anonymous wrote:College football is in the fabric of the College experience. Look no further than College Gameday today at UT and today's slate of games. GA @ TX tonight will be epic.

Go vols!!

Going to be a good one, sadium will be electric! Students having the time of their lives!

Actually this game is sucking.

Says the Vols fan...

Nah, I don’t care about either team. The game was just boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alumni life is more fun if you can follow and discuss your alma mater’s athletics every week. The USNWR ranking report is an annual thing and who really wants to talk about this in public? Most big state schools still offer very solid academics.
I have friends who attended Ivy League schools (not HYP) / top LACs and regret their decisions and would now choose a big state school instead. They don’t feel connected to their respective alma maters…

I mean, I went to a big flagship university with a dominant football team and never once attended a game. It's fine, I have zero regrets but also why would I care about "feeling connected" to my alma mater. It's a place that I lived for three years. I made some friends, both students and professors, and those are my connection to the school.

Whether or not I get pride from a bunch of 18-22 year olds I've never met and will never meet playing a ball game is not in any way related to my day-to-day life and I honestly don't really understand people for whom it's some sort of big "connection" point.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of dummy picks a school due to football?!

Most 18 year olds will take solid football schools like Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, or USC over more academically "prestigious" schools like Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Swarthmore, or Amherst. They want an experience that transcends the library. They want to have fun and be a part of something larger than themselves. I think it's pretty healthy.

That's a pretty sweeping statement. Most 18 year olds that you know personally, maybe?

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Anonymous wrote:What on earth does this even mean. I totally disagree with you, football has absolutely nothing to do with college education. It’s a waste of money.

Neither does violin, or piano, or chess, or fencing, or crew, or squash, or ballet, or fraternities/sororities, or ultimate frisbee, any number of other extracurriculars. That’s why are called extracurricular. Yet I would not want to attend a college that didn’t have vibrant extracurriculars. No one is saying you have got enjoy football, but that’s your value judgment; it isn’t fact.

So now music isn't an academic subject?

Music performance is a fine art. It's fine-motor and timing physical skill like a sport but not a gross strength skill.

Anyway we're talking about performance, not studying.
The problems with football are:
It's a uniquely brutal sport that destroys its players' lives. They should play better sports.

Aside from safety, sports absolutely belong at school, in intramural and club form, but not with absurd budget of football with its equipment and stadium needs.
A town should have its local amateur, semipro, and/or pro sports teams (depending on size or town), but these shouldn't be crammed into college and forcing players to take fake college classes and limiting membership to a cerrain age group like colleges do. Sports leagues belong to the community.

[Anonymous]

This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

I always say the most triggered is the person who decides to originate any post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just hope they all have fun.

I hope none of the players are getting permanent brain damage for the entertainment of other students. Unfortunately, we can be sure that some of them are.

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Anonymous wrote:I just hope they all have fun.

I hope none of the players are getting permanent brain damage for the entertainment of other students. Unfortunately, we can be sure that some of them are.

One of the reasons I no longer enjoy football. We know all this and let it continue because…money? School spirit?

Yeah, sorry - I can’t support it anymore

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

I always say the most triggered is the person who decides to originate any post.

I don't think many people in this world really care "what you always say."

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Is this thread even real?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

I always say the most triggered is the person who decides to originate any post.

OP definitely has a triggered vibe about them

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

I always say the most triggered is the person who decides to originate any post.

OP definitely has a triggered vibe about them

Keep telling yourself that...🤣

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

I always say the most triggered is the person who decides to originate any post.

OP definitely has a triggered vibe about them

Keep telling yourself that...🤣

Yep, there it is lol 👆

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been interesting. It's pretty amazing people can get so triggered over a college sport.

I always say the most triggered is the person who decides to originate any post.

OP definitely has a triggered vibe about them

Keep telling yourself that...🤣

Yep, there it is lol 👆

There is what?