Or, as the article’s headline has it:
Yes. Yes, it does. Which makes all the clucking certain universities do about the importance of student safety extremely amusing, doesn’t it? And then there’s the NC “Why should you exist?” AA.
The University of Nebraska went way out of its way to recruit Richie Incognito. Most of the SEC schools in particular seem to try really really hard to get some of the most violent of the young and concussed to be part of their campus.
The college athletics arms race includes increasingly intense competition for the biggest and nastiest out there; and of course only the biggest and nastiest make it to the professionals, where fighting isn’t simply something you do at bars near campus. It’s a way of life.
How does Nick Saban earn a zillion dollars a year? He recruits the biggest and nastiest to the University of Alabama.
August 21st, 2015 at 5:16PM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/baylor-coach-briles-is-in-trouble/ar-BBlYKtt?li=BBgzzfc
August 21st, 2015 at 7:10PM
dmf: Hadn’t seen that one. Hard to keep up. Thanks for the link.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:12PM
sure, yeah ya need a bot to crawl thru the muck for you