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They should spend the next year blowing the NCAA by RagingBull

and current college sports system up. It's idiocy and we've allowed it to happen even though we all knew it was true. We just accept it because college football is a great sport. Or it used to be. The pagaentry and those fight songs! Those Ole Miss tailgaters!

There are too many flaws to cite but let's start with Oregon's football facility and then try and rationalize how the athletes are not paid. I guess they get to play miniature golf and go to their own movie theatre for 4 years.

I just hope major changes happen and Notre Dame leads. I am doubtful on both counts.