“The problem with radical idealism is that it easily falls into the trap of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.” That’s a very interesting thought, and very interesting articulation of it as well. It gets me thinking.

Just because nobody else has a clue who’s starting doesn’t mean that Kelly doesn’t. If everyone knows, then Charlie Strong knows too. We’ll see what happens in the game.

Speak for yourself. I’m Irish too. Never was much of a fighter, don’t drink, and haven’t any children.

These are very sad stories. The writer doesn’t say how many of the 208 Title IX violation investigations have to do with sexual assault, but clearly this problem is pervasive throughout the campuses in our nation and has been for at least 50 years. It’s long past time we fixed this.

The OP didn’t say that she expected consequences. She said that they didn’t have any. Not the same thing, at least as far as my understanding of English is concerned. She was unspecific about what she found “staggering”; so it would seem that you have chosen an interpretation that is obviously contradictory and…

“Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll.”

Zaire was a redshirt freshman last year, not a true freshman.

This is funny now.

Regarding your first point, while I'm sure also that things like this happen everywhere (there's a lot of money involved, after all), it seems likely to me that this is a worse state of affairs than average.

The writer describes four incidents. The gay-bashing one would at least get some sort of reprimand, and would probably be checked out to see if it matched up with any real hate crime on record. The threatening of a teacher as described would have probably gotten a suspension. The top offensive player would have…

To me it's the "handlers" that stand out. This is not a problem that is "prevalent throughout education" as you would have it.

Now I'm following you. So, the negative side of the debate is this: the problem with giving players pro options other than the world's top league is that these options would have to compete with college football, which is every bit as popular as the NFL. Potential stars will want to play college ball because that's…

If that were the answer, then they would have gone over better with the MLS when they tried it, wouldn't they?

I can't speak for all of Europe, but I can say from experience that the average Brit who drops out of high school when he's old enough to do so has about the equivalent of two years of college education in the United States. Also, their emphasis on hands-on exercises, practice, and problem solving put them ahead of…