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“In granting a football scholarship, my college had thus agreed to teach the student to be a better thinker on the condition that he risk his long-term brain function.”

It is a dark, unacceptable irony that an institution devoted to developing intellectual capacity would allow, let alone celebrate, the systematic destruction of what it works so hard to create.

Guy says universities should stop playing football – just because it knocks the stuffing out of students’ brains…

Margaret Soltan, October 23, 2017 8:05AM
Posted in: sport

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3 Responses to ““In granting a football scholarship, my college had thus agreed to teach the student to be a better thinker on the condition that he risk his long-term brain function.””

  1. Anon Says:
    October 24th, 2017 at 7:06AM

    Such a provocative title, yet his recommendations for ending our complicity are pretty lame.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    October 24th, 2017 at 9:00AM

    Anon: I doubt he even wrote the headline. Too polite.

  3. dmf Says:
    October 25th, 2017 at 4:42PM

    https://the1a.org/shows/2017-10-26/ncaa

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