Hits on a lot of the themes discussed here, including the value of a CFB scholarship, the impact of injuries (esp. head injuries) on the game, and then spends significant time on the relationship between fan and player -- particularly in the South, where the author resides.
I don't endorse all of the author's conclusions -- and I'm very loathe to discuss Foucault in a piece about college football, for a variety of reasons -- but I will just say this: I love football. And I especially love Michigan Football and, by extension I guess, college football. But I don't watch the game the same way I did before I knew people who played the game at the major conference level, or before all the money started sloshing around in the game, or we knew so much about the impact of head injuries later in life.
Like everything else in American life in the 21st century, it seems, football has gotten pretty complicated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/opinion/college-football-black-athletes.html
I don't endorse all of the author's conclusions -- and I'm very loathe to discuss Foucault in a piece about college football, for a variety of reasons -- but I will just say this: I love football. And I especially love Michigan Football and, by extension I guess, college football. But I don't watch the game the same way I did before I knew people who played the game at the major conference level, or before all the money started sloshing around in the game, or we knew so much about the impact of head injuries later in life.
Like everything else in American life in the 21st century, it seems, football has gotten pretty complicated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/opinion/college-football-black-athletes.html
