>it's plain to see that football itself has nothing to do with education, except insofar as it's an activity that many students enjoy I disagree with this. I

>it's plain to see that football itself has nothing to do with education, except insofar as it's an activity that many students enjoy I disagree with this. I was a college athlete. I firmly believe that being an athlete teaches you more about being a leader, a teammate and having discipline than almost anything else. Those are extremely desirable skills to have in any work place. I do think any team based activity can build the same skills if there's a common goal to be achieved. College athletes just have the guarantee that they've been doing it for multiple years. Football players get picked on all the time because of a lot incorrect stereotypes about the people that do it. Not all football players are idiots. Look up John Urschel.