As football dies: "Michigan St. AD upset by student section"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

37. Fine with me. I had no interest in football in college.

I had other things to do like GET AN EDUCATION and socialize. That did not include going to football games. I did not date men who were interested in sports. They were busy studying science, math and engineering. In fact, they actively avoided sports.

I went to a grand total of one football game in college and that was a double date at the Astrodome.

The other undergrad college I went to was very small and only handed out tennis scholarships. No scholarships for any other sports.

The sooner they stop injuring each other with concussions and busted ACLs, the better it will be for the students.

Why a tech school like Rice University, which has brilliant students and researchers, needs a huge stadium holding 80,000 people, I don't know, except for the alumni money, and Brown & Root needed the money to build it.


Coaches need to be taken off their pedestals. This idea that sports builds teamwork is a sacred cow. P.E. class often produces lifelong resentment of team sports. That's what it did to me. I refused to play softball in junior high because I refused to break a finger and ruin my musical activities. They threw me out of the game when I was sitting in left field in 98 degree Texas heat and I said, "Good". I didn't care if they had flunked me in high school P.E. because it wouldn't help me with my academics in college nor my studying for Advanced Placement credits in college.


I was bullied by huge six foot tall female pupils (they didn't study; they were pupils who warmed chairs) and often told me they wanted to beat me up. They would hit me in the head with basketballs and hurt me and tried to kill me at red rover by tripping me. I hated volleyball because there were 8 people on a side and some huge girl would jump sideways and knock me out of the way. If I served a volleyball my whole forearm turned red, throbbed and hurt like hell. I knew I shouldn't even try to hit the ball because I was not tall enough to jump up and spike, nor big enough to get out of the way of the huge girls. Basketball was worse. I learned to hate team sports. That was when they wouldn't beat people up on a high school campus. They'd wait until you were off campus.


When I was in high school and college, I learned teamwork. Fifty or sixty people worked together, practiced on a regular schedule, and had practice sessions and private lessons that our parents paid for. We learned to work together towards a defined goal with split second timing. We felt a wonderful sense of accomplishment and joy after we performed.

I was in orchestra. Played many concerts of classical music, loved it, and did it well, along with a lot of other talented kids. Obtained all the benefits of teamwork without breaking any fingers or heads or knees.