Why College Football Will Be Dead In 20 Years

[orange parmejohn]

Playing devils advocate here, but if what they are suggesting happens, cutting administrators is not going to help matters that much. They are talking about a complete collapse of traditional colleges. It makes some real sense.

Now SEC schools may not get hit as hard, but if they have make it, it may force them to pay the athletes and then that means that the NFL may have to step in and help give their farm teams some sort of support. One conference could not keep college football alive as we know it.

It could be that college football looks more like IVY League football and the NFL just starts it's own farm league.

probably a ludicrous notion to you guys, but i could see this playing into the hands of soccer as a developing sport in the U.S. professional MLS teams are starting to build academies which will pay young players to develop their skill and no college classes to deal with. there are also professional teams all over the world to play for and make a living. there are also far less injuries, and a chance to play on world stages. football will always be king in the U.S. until football collapses itself. when college players start getting paid by the NFL as part of "farm teams", its over.

 

[GreveHaller]

the contraction to more on line course will probably happen but after some time the powers will revert finding that while students learn book smarts they fail to learn life smarts. Actually going to and living on a college campus teaches you how to live and how to be an adult. How to cram for an important event at the last minute, how to meet a member of the opposite sex, how to avoid said member of the opposite sex, how to cook and clean, how to live off a meager budget but have enough money to drink every night, etc... All under the umbrella of being a student.

 

[therealUT]

Wow, how idealistic are you? You can't be serious.

I'm dead serious. We are not speaking of moderate failure rates that politicians and regents might be able to gloss over, we are speaking of failure rates of 60-80%.

 

[BOP]

I'm dead serious. We are not speaking of moderate failure rates that politicians and regents might be able to gloss over, we are speaking of failure rates of 60-80%.

They have glossed over a lot of things that people are a lot more aware of and a lot more outraged about than that.

 

[therealUT]

They have glossed over a lot of things that people are a lot more aware of and a lot more outraged about than that.

You're right; and, many public school districts have lost accreditation (I should know, since the KC school district is second only to Detroit in worst school districts in the US). That being said, constituents do raise a fuss when their schools lose accreditation. Further, if a flagship state school ever lost accreditation, believe me that a huge fuss would be raised in said state. What as an easy way to lose accreditation? Fail over 50% of the students you admit. It's a statistic that is very hard to sugarcoat or gloss over.

 

[Volgrad98]

Football won't die, it'll just look more like this in 20 years.

 

[MSCE09]

There is more to going off to school than the degree. Its a four-five year island between being a teenager and an adult. I kind of feel bad for the people who never got to do it. Competition will hopefully drive the cost down somewhat but I don't see it closing down to many colleges in general.

 

[orange parmejohn]

lol Volgrad. that would be double flagrant personal assault foul.