Getty ImagesAt a time when many are bracing for a concussion-driven decline of football, the NFL’s primary feeder system continues to feast on the sport.
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame has announced that five new college football teams will debut this season.
Since 2008, 28 other schools have launched football programs, and 17 more will arrive from 2013 to 2015. The full list of new and coming football schools appears at the National Football Foundation’s website.
Perhaps the bigger news is that the NFL has trumpeted this development on the website previously known as NFLLabor.com, the league’s not-so-thinly-veiled CBA propaganda site. Now called NFLCommunications.com, the propaganda relates to a broader set of issues, such as a story like this one, which provides hard proof that the gloom-and-doomers who see the game diminishing are wr-wr-wr-not exactly right.
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That means that five additional womens sports, will be added thanks to title IX.
That’s exciting and additional drains on athletic receipts.
“which provides hard proof that the gloom-and-doomers who see the game diminishing are wr-wr-wr-not exactly right.”
Noooo, it provides proof that college football is a cash cow for universities. Give some kids a free diploma that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on since 95% of them won’t attend any real classes, make up the difference by charging the actual students so much for tuition that they are saddled with debt for decades after graduation, and watch the TV money, merchandising rights, ticket sales and alumni donations com”e flowing in. Of course, once the lawyers and ex-players start suing colleges for their concussions and the universities get any hint that they may lose in court, then the trend will swing the other way overnight. Higher education is big business. As long as football brings home the cash, it’s welcomed with opened arms. If liability comes into play, than “academics” will have “been ignored for too long” (they have to make it sound “noble”) and football will no longer be welcomed. Dollars and cents.
Football isn’t that great of a moneymaker at Division III and NAIA schools that aren’t condensers and not always for the good teams either. It actually is usually there to build community amongst students at smaller universities.