Interesting article about college football and money

[Da Coach]

What Made College Football More Like the Pros? $7.3 Billion, for a Start

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/sports/ncaafootball/what-made-college-ball-more-like-the-pros-73-billion-for-a-start.html

After taking a sociology exam, Cardale Jones, a quarterback at Ohio State, posted a message on Twitter that echoed across college sports: ???Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain??™t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.???

[Chico]

What Made College Football More Like the Pros? $7.3 Billion, for a Start

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/sports/ncaafootball/what-made-college-ball-more-like-the-pros-73-billion-for-a-start.html

After taking a sociology exam, Cardale Jones, a quarterback at Ohio State, posted a message on Twitter that echoed across college sports: ???Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain??™t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.???

How'd he even graduate from high school?

[Vent]

The same thing happens in college basketball.

[Da Coach]

How'd he even graduate from high school?

I was curious about this, so I looked it up. He attended Cleveland Glenville High School, a failing public school in East Cleveland whose students get incredibly lousy standardized test scores, have more than half of their students who are not proficient in either math or reading, and is 100% minorities, and which the city of Cleveland is considering closing.

Article that mentions Glenville HS: Cleveland tries to turn around troubled school system

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/19/cleveland.schools/

But as terrible as the school is academically, they have one hell of a football program.

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2014/02/33225/cleveland-glenville-pipelines-five-best-buckeye-commits

http://www.nola.com/sugarbowl/index.ssf/2014/12/cardale_jones_leads_a_contigen.html

[Chico]

Can't close it. You know what they would be accused of.