I should qualify that a bit. I love the sport of football. I love the Wisconsin Badgers. I was a student season ticket holder for 2 years. My wife and I loved attending Badger games while I was in school at Madison. That being said, I can't tolerate college football as a whole anymore.
College football is a game where the rich get richer. Rich schools make more money. Great teams get the the best players. There are no "student athletes" at the higher echelons of college football. Okay, they're there, but they're not the ones who usually dominate the conversation. At the top level, college sports is really professional sports in disguise. We all try to pretend it's something different. What we end up is the worst of the amateur athletics that college football is supposed to be, mixed with the bad parts of professional football. The greed, money and politics overpower the school pride and love of the game that supposedly makes college football so special.
I'm sick of Alabama. I'm sick Ohio State. I'm sick of Nick Saban. I'm sick of Urban Meyer. I'm sick of Johnny Football, Reggie Bush, Pete Carroll, Joe Paterno, and all of the jerks who pretend that top level college football is about building character, playing for your school or anything other than making money.
This fall, the attention that I used to pay to non-Badger college football will be focused on the English Premier League. Sure, the EPL has the same problems that college football. In FIFA, soccer may have the only governing body more corrupt and hypocritical than the NCAA, but at least professional soccer doesn't pretend to be anything else.
