re: Now that it's truly athletics & money NOT academics...

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Now that EVERYONE is in full agreement that college sports is about money and athletic competition and not academics (in the least) it's time the SEC dump Vanderbilt.

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When folks were downright proud about paying the coach multi-millions, and building facilities in the hundred million range, how hard was it for some people to still believe it wasn't about money and winning ?

It hasn't been about academics for a long, long time. It's semi-pro football. It's fun because the names change, and it's grafted onto regions that don't have pro sports. But it's semi-pro football.

Now - the money doesn't just go to the coach or the contractors building the facilities. That's all that's changed. Well, that, and maybe the cold shock of reality for some that this isn't "student athletes".

If it was, the team with the best GPA would get the option at the coin toss.