College football

Small Town High School Football vs. Division One College Football Lights shining on the local hero’s. Fans cheering at the players though most go unheard. It can all come down to one play, football is a game of inches. It takes 11 men giving every play everything they have, to come out of the game victorious. All around the United States the game of football is loved. Whatever level of football is being played, fans will be cheering and players will be pushing themselves to do whatever it takes…

Week 4 of the college football season concluded this weekend with each of the top 12 teams in the AP Top 25 avoiding defeat. Five teams ranked in the Week 4 poll fell Saturday, including No. 13 Oregon, No. 16 Arizona, No. 20 Georgia Tech, No. 22 BYU and No. 25 Missouri. Subsequently, all five teams also fell out of the Top 25. Below is a recap of the most significant storylines from week 4 of the 2015 college football season. Most Significant Victory - No. 3 TCU Survives Texas Tech, 55-52…

and loser. But there is one business that is unmatched in its disparity between winners and loser, and that is the business of college football. The last time this country saw such a wide gap between people benefiting from a business while others suffered was back in the 1920s when we did not have labor laws and employers could pay workers next to nothing. But college football is even worse than that because universities pay absolutely nothing to their stars on the field while they poll in…

of 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS). In late 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt assembled two White House conferences as a way to “encourage reforms’ to college football practices which had resulted in repeated injuries and deaths and “prompted many college and universities to discontinue the sport.” In the same year, 1905, 18 student-athletes and over 140 were seriously injured. As a result, over 60 higher-education institutions become members of…

College Football Players are being Paid? Many people struggle bringing money home to their families, and still college football players still get paid. But schools are only paying the football teams and the men's basketball team. What about all of the other teams? Therefor, college football players should not get paid. College football players don’t need to be paid. There are around 85 players on a football team, and each player could see a paycheck of about $250,000 a year. College football…

This summer, I worked at a summer camp in Maine and helped a college football player gain academic eligibility. I did not expect to be in that position, but it was a rewarding and humbling experience. I met him at the beginning of summer during an introduction exercise. He told me that he was attending a Junior College because, after he dropping out of his first college, it was his only chance to earn his way back to division one football. I wished him luck and did not think much of it until I…

College Football vs NFL As years go by the meaning of the game has a developed different picture. Many things begin to change as it comes to what football is really about. The NFL and college football have changed from each other drastically. College football differs from the NFL in various of ways. Many people view college football as a pitstop for big time players before they get the opportunity to showcase their abilities in front of NFL coaches. College football is different because…

Earlier today I was walking along my campus, and as I glanced over I saw a crowd of football players clashing into each other. As I walked closer I heard their coach diatribe, shouting at them to hit each other harder. This got me thinking, why wouldn’t the coach want them to tackle harder; what’s the worst the can happen, they never play again from an injury? The players don’t care at all, with their toughened calloused bodies and the fact that they are too compliant and obsequious to disobey…

Knute Rockne Changes College Football and Makes Notre Dame Famous On a cold spring day in 1888, the legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne was born to a humble, Norwegian wagon builder (Oriard). The family immigrated to America five years later in search of greater economic opportunities (Carter). In high school, Knute briefly played football and ran track before dropping out (Carter). He worked as a postal clerk for a few years before finally taking an entrance exam for Notre Dame and…

Should college football players receive money for participating in a football game? Or when players receive a scholarship, payment enough? Craig Keolanui argues that if the players received payment, then fewer players would break the team or NCAA rules. Also he argues that they need compensation for the sacrifices they pay every day for the team. However, the amount of money one would receive does not affect whether or not one will disobey the rules. In addition, the players deserve what they…