Not long ago, one of the members of this board posted the current rates for attending LSU. I replied with the current tuition and fee rates for the second tier Michigan state university I attended, and for U of M. I’m pretty sure that, if you can play football, well, you can get a free ride at either Michigan university. But, if you are there to learn, you will pay triple what LSU charges.
I have commented before, that I looked through the Farmington HS course catalog, a few years ago. Nearly every academic class had a fee, anywhere from $10/semester, to a few hundred for the debate class. No vocational ed classes offered. But being on the football team is free.
A coworker of mine sent her spawn to Churchill HS, in Livonia. Churchill charges a $100/year fee to play football, but if you want your spawn to learn to drive, you are on your own. Livonia Public does not offer driver’s ed, even as an elective.
Based on these tidbits, where do academics, or practical skills, stand, vs feeding players into college football?
Steve