Christine Brennan’s familiar, unconscionable bullshit about university football players getting a college education fares poorly at the hands of Joe Nocera during a radio discussion of unionization of players.
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Brennan: “The academic pursuits [of university football players] are being met in a beautiful way. … [And] union dues? Who’s paying for all this?”
Nocera: “Hahaha. I really respect Christine a lot, but I just disagree with almost everything she just said… When you have coaches making five million dollars a year, it’s silly to say that there’s no money to pay players. [As for education,] the only thing you major in is eligibility… The courses are baloney… [Many revenue athletes] absolutely positively couldn’t make it in a university setting.”
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UD thanks Dirk.