… asks readers who Notre Dame’s next football coach should be.
Here’s one of the answers the bloggers got.
Football is starting to harm ND.
… In general, college football at the highest level is now so corrupt that the NCAA cannot control it, and the universities, supposedly bastions of academic integrity and higher learning, exploit the labor of young adults, many with few options, for personal and institutional gain. A majority of teams that went to bowls last year graduated <50% of the players. Meanwhile the nature and frequency of injuries suggest that the kids are not viewed as much more than fodder, necessary casualties to keep the alumni happy and contributing. [T]he continuing effort to field a dominant football team in a fundamentally corrupt environment is eating away at the soul of the institution. ND should get out of football and focus on academics.
December 18th, 2009 at 12:28PM
Umberto Eco offers advice:
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/12/game.html