Pursuit of victory in college football is really the hallmark of the American civilization.

Again, I could not disagree with you more, except that I agree with you.

They're students, not players. If I'm wrong, then get them out of school uniforms and put them into pro-team uniforms. Some would argue that a four-year education, room and board and the experience of the highest levels of intercollegiate competition is "fair compensation," though I wouldn't, necessarily. No one is…

The people you're talking about "getting rich" off college sports are in jobs for which "winning" is a job requirement. When teams don't win, they get fired. It seems only logical that you would also add incentives for them to win if that's the other side of the coin.

Every time Tom Ley cries about college students not being paid to play sports, he lets ESPN know that he's available to come and shill for them whenever they're ready to have him.

Is Barry's implication that college athletes should be paid? Why should colleges and universities be the homes of professional athletic leagues? How is the mission of higher education served by the sponsorship of professional farm leagues for the NFL and NBA? Athletics at colleges and universities should be purely…

The approximate location of the San Andreas Fault (Superman, 1978) is Los Angeles CA? I guess that's where the Golden Gate Bridge must be located, then.

College athletes shouldn't be paid for their participation, period. If there's a strong argument to be made that "big time college sports" athletes should be paid — and there clearly is — then the argument should be whether or not these sports should compete under the aegis of their respective colleges and…

That's bullshit — and I'm far from a Penn State apologist. Your instinctual reaction to a sexual assault is to your credit, and to the great benefit of the victim, but your sanctimonious condemnation of McQueary isn't of service to anyone — not even to Sandusky's victims. McQueary is merely the most visible of the…

What does the use of one's likeness have to do with whether or not participating in fundraising efforts is a college athlete's designated "job?"

Hmm. Yeah. I meant that what you're describing sounds a lot like slavery.

So, by your definition, it doesn't require mutual consent.

Does that make it "their job?"

There are many reasons why this argument is ridiculous, but the most salient one is that it's written from the perspective of a sportswriter and not that of an educator or college president, trustee, provost, chancellor or dean. Those are, frankly, the only opinion holders whose insight on this subject is meaningful.…

"lighten up, Francis."

I find the notion of getting "schools into trouble with the NCAA" to be a rather silly one. The NCAA is the problem in the first place — and that's coming from someone who thinks that paying college players is a dumb idea.

@gfore def is tall. And has cans.