Another jerk

Colleges and universities were established to provide higher education to serious knowledge-seekers. In 1822, when tension arose between sports and academics, Yale College President, Timothy Dwight, banned a primitive form of football on campus. He was a visionary. Unfortunately, in 1869, Princeton and Rutgers, ignoring the earlier wisdom, played a soccer-type intercollegiate football game, and the practice has proliferated ever since.

Today, college football is big business, and it makes millions for the schools. Apparently, however, the money is used for something other than reducing the amount of the cost of education the students must absorb. That doesn't seem right to me.

Just because there is big money involved, the government is now poking its nose in where it doesn't belong. With the nation fighting two wars, and arguing about climate change and health care, some JERK from Texas (whose name I know, but will not publicize) has introduced legislation to change the system by which colleges schedule bowl games, because his alma mater did not play in as prestigious a game as he thought they should have last year. Nonsense.

It appears Yale had it right in 1822.