BCS brings up a perennial complaint: College football as big business
Thursday night’s championship game between Alabama and Texas, featuring head coaches paid $4 million and $5.1 million, respectively, will be an occasion for more hand-wringing about the “commercialization” of college football. That is a hardy perennial.
The 1920s, which worshiped stars such as Red Grange and coaches such as Knute Rockne, saw a boom in construction of capacious stadiums. Southern Methodist University built its stadium 13 years before it built its library. The decade ended with a 1929 Carnegie Foundation report ineffectually deploring the “corruption” of grafting this lucrative entertainment industry onto academia.
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