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u/key_lime_pie · 2 pointsr/nfl

Right

In 2011, "only 22 of the 120 top-tier football programs broke even or made a profit."

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That's the top 120 (i.e. FBS). There are 132 FCS programs, 169 D-2 programs, and 249 D-3 programs, virtually none of whom operate their football programs at a profit.

u/poopdaddy2 · 1 pointr/CFB

One of the first chapters of The System discusses the events leading up to his firing. It was really interesting to see how poorly everyone involved handled the situation, from the player to the Tech boosters, to Leach himself.

u/Noumenon72 · -6 pointsr/funny

I sort of came to racism through liberalism. First it was explained to me "see how people are conditioned to view blacks as violent and side with the white authority figure (the ref)"? Then I realized "Hey, I'm conditioned like that!" Now a lot of people would try to change that, but I figured it mostly doesn't hurt anybody as long as you're aware of it. And I think the racist angle on football is interesting and accurate.


> the recent history of Missouri football ought to teach us something about America in 2015.

> Americans love a winner. And the easiest way to win at college football is to recruit violent young men other coaches wouldn’t dare bring on campus. For example, although Coach Gary Pinkel is being praised for backing his players in their crusade to have the college president fired for being white, he’s presided over at least two major rape scandals.

> When his star running back, Derrick Washington, was accused of rape during the 2008 season when he scored 19 touchdowns, Coach Pinkel let him stay on the team until he was arrested just before his senior 2010 season for assaults on two more women (one of them his university-provided tutor).

> As the initial acclaim for Erdely’s concoction [in Rolling Stone] demonstrated, many Americans desperately want to believe in tales of white frat-boy rapists. In contrast, practically nobody is happy about documented cases of black football-star rapists.

> ...In particular, because young women tend to like young men who are good at beating the other side, white coeds and black football stars are a combination that leads to a lot of rape charges. The U. of Missouri football program, for instance, is notorious for assigning jock-crazy coeds as tutors. The female prosecutor in Derrick Washington’s trial observed:

>> Too many tutors were having sex with the athletes.… The university has created this environment. When you put a room of athletes together with attractive girls, some of whom like to sleep with athletes, you are just asking for trouble. It creates a sexually charged environment, and athletes get an opinion of girls that is skewed…

> Sexual assault of various flavors, such as teammates joining in or attacks on sleeping roommates, is a recurrent problem with college football. But because it’s largely a black vice, it’s hard for modern Americans to talk about—in contrast to the sins of Haven Monahan.

> What can be done? Coaches in big-time college football will always have incentives to bring scary bad guys onto campus and connive to keep them there. Coach Pinkel at Missouri, for example, is paid $4.02 million per year to win.
--by Steve Sailer