Playing college football is a privilege, not a business. Players should be playing for the love of the game and not the money. Also many college players already have a free ride through out their four years of college or until they decide to go pro because they are already receive many things from the school and it’s not fair to other athletes who play a different sport who don’t get paid as well because they work hard for their sport just like college football players do. College football for players isn’t a business. Being able to play college football for a school is a privilege.
This "every-game-matters" attitude that college football brings to the table would be diminished if a playoff system were in effect. No devoted fan of the game wants to watch the backups play in the final game of the season so the starters can avoid injury. This happens in many sports, and all but desecrates the game's value. For example, the Indianapolis Colts exercised this method during the 2009 NFL season, leaving the games pointless while fans became enraged. This is one of the most compelling reasons why college football should keep a BCS system
Aaron Rodgers: Replacing a Legend All high school football players dream of becoming an NFL superstar throughout their life. Football players fantasize of making it big and playing for America’s Team, the Green Bay Packers. The NFL Players Association states, “[s]tatistically of the 100,000 high school seniors who play football each year, only 215 will ever make an NFL roster. That is .2%!” (“NFL” par. 1).
These kids’s start out young in little leagues playing their heart off, where they eventually grow up and play for their high schools. High school football, teenage boys all over the country spend countless hours in their schools weight room trying to be the fastest, strongest, and best football player around. College scouts set out everyday to find these young men, but they are extremely specific on what they want and rarely settle for less. Size is one factor that separates an average player from a college football player. Every position on the football field has a certain size demand.
Revising Recruiting Recruiting is a huge part of college sports. It is unfair when certain schools, such as Kentucky and Alabama, dominate Division I football and basketball respectively because they are able to recruit the top high school athletes in the nation. These big name colleges usually give their highly-rated athletes special benefits for attending their schools.. The colleges also give the coaches a lot of power in running the schools' sports’ programs. Worst of all, recruiting encourages the youth to spend more time practicing sports and less time focusing on academics.
Friday Night Lights provided all three of these themes plus a whole list of others. This movie also helps to decode why football has such an impact on the youth of America, especially high school football. The 1988 Permian Panther football team deserved to win this game yet they lost, but yet they gained much more out of this experience than the victors did. They learned that football helped turn them into men; it helped them to become much more diverse human beings. Teaching them the basics of being a man while at the same time teaching them the importance of team work and perseverance through whatever life throws at you.
There are many different styles of offense and defense at the college level. On the offensive side of the ball there are many different formations. They have variety of them such as the pistol, power I, Flex bone, Wish bone, and the power T. There are more but these are the most popular. In the NFL almost all teams run the same types of offense. They all run pro style offensive and have shot gun formation and the power I.
To review the NFL season of 2008/2009, football fans saw the New England Patriots win 18 games in a row; the New York Giants lose their opening 4 games to win out the Wild Card and eventually the Super Bowl, and Randy Moss’ heroics jumping over numerous players to an NFL record 23 receiving touchdowns. How did Patriots owner Robert Kraft build such a highly successful team? The performance of a team’s top players affects the overall winning percentage of the team which in turn affects the attendance of home games. Fans do not care how their team’s individual players may perform as long as their team is winning. That means that even though a team looks good on paper, that it does not necessarily translate to success on the field and as long
Pay To Play? College athletes juggle busy academic schedules and practice schedules throughout stressful weeks of the year, so shouldn’t they be compensated for the time dedicated to their college teams (football, American football, basketball etc.). From the start of higher education, college athletes have never been adequately financially rewarded for their efforts in sports. Athletic scholarships are a form of scholarship which allows its pupils to attend a college or a private high school. These are awarded to an individual based predominantly on his or her ability to play in a sport.
It is understood that there has been a number of head and neck injuries but that is part of the risk one takes when they decide they are going to put that chin strap on. If you’re tough enough to play ball at the college level, then I’m sure no one has forced you to play. Certain hits are costing teams’ big plays or maybe even games, due to the penalties that occur following these hits. These hits are even costing the players big money out of their salaries. These rules are ruining the fun in football.