The start of the college football season is only weeks away.  Highly hyped, high-stakes games are on the schedule complete corporate sponsors, television right and local as well as national media coverage. Such games should feature terrific young men, committed to their teammates and schools, with wise coaches who are equally committed to building character in their players and serving their communities. Instead we are force-fed the unsettling onslaught of stories about barroom brawls, boosters bankrolling the breaking of rules, police reports instead of history reports, DUI scores instead of ACT scores, professors ignoring academic fraud, administrators turning a blind eye to assaults and abuse and far too many thugs who get a free pass because they are talented enough to either throw or catch one. The state of college athletics and what to do about it on this edition of therefore what… 

<p>The start of the college football season is only weeks away.&nbsp; Highly hyped, high-stakes games are on the schedule complete corporate sponsors, television right and local as well as national media coverage. Such games should feature terrific young men, committed to their teammates and schools, with wise coaches who are equally committed to building character in their players and serving their communities. Instead we are force-fed the unsettling onslaught of stories about barroom brawls, boosters bankrolling the breaking of rules, police reports instead of history reports, DUI scores instead of ACT scores, professors ignoring academic fraud, administrators turning a blind eye to assaults and abuse and far too many thugs who get a free pass because they are talented enough to either throw or catch one. The state of college athletics and what to do about it on this edition of therefore what&hellip;&nbsp;</p>

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