Friday, September 03, 2010

More College Football Stupidity

It never ends - the sacrifice of education to marketing of college football players. Now, we have more and more colleges pushing "beefcake" photographs; i.e., photos that emphasize the body of the players, not their mind nor their skill in football. Part of the move is sponsored by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, which has enough money to pay an executive director. (An aside - I wonder how much colleges pay their strength and conditioning coaches, certainly more than they pay some lowly doctoral candidates who actually spend time in classrooms teaching students.)

Here is an example of one of these photos, this one of Purdue players.



I wonder what the president of Purdue thinks about this.

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