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    “Only 2.6% of all high school football player go onto play Division 1 football and only 1.8% to Division 2” (“Football”). This statistic identifies that it is very difficult to advance into the collegiate level of football. In order to mature into a collegiate or professional football player, an individual needs to understand the likelihood of making it to the next level, the basics of how to improve and become a superior athlete, and the competition they will most likely face so that advancement

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    College Coach To be a college coach you have to be very dedicated and love the sport you are coaching. Being a college coach is very time consuming and a very hard job to land in the sports world. The competition that one faces when trying to get into the job field is fierce. This means that the job as a coach in the collegiate athletic career field is limited to a small percentage of the people that end up applying. These people need to be able to fulfill a variety of duties for their universities

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    money and wins your team has. People tend to put each other down and make disrespectful remarks if their football team wins and even if they lose. Every Saturday, many Americans travel to tailgate’s and watch their favorite college football team compete. Many Big Ten football coaches like Jim Harbaugh, Urban Meyer, and Mark Dantonio make a significant amount of money coaching college football. I decided to look at the difference between the amount of money these coaches make and the number of games

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    Should college football athletes get paid? This topic is very talked about in college football because it can go back and forth. I think that they should get paid for several important reasons. First, they bring huge amounts of money for the school. For example, the athletes can win a championship and the colleges can get a big amounts of money. Another way they bring huge amounts of money for the school is the jerseys that they sell with there names on it. I feel if people buy jerseys with your

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    greatest football players thrive in tough conditions on and off the field. One person who came to mind when pondering who to interview was former Miami Hurricanes national champ, Canadian Football League retiree, and current Plano High School and Boom Football coach Brad Kunz. My goal in life is to play college ball and become a football coach later on in life. Coach Kunz is a master in high school football coaching and recruiting, knowing the ins and outs of what it takes to play college football, and

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    College football is the staple of any good Saturday. More than 216 million viewers decided to spend their Saturdays watching college football during the 2013 season (NFF). The NHL (national hockey league), on the other hand, had a feeble 1.73 million in its best year (Bibel). Now it seems almost ridiculous that these hockey players are getting million dollar payouts while the college football players are competing for free. This brings up the hotly debated discussion of whether or not college football

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    pound running back, can’t dominate college football. Same goes for Deshaun Watson, a black 6’2, 205 pound quarter back who piloted his team all the way to the College Football playoffs. The NCAA is committing a financial injustice, also a racial one, because they won’t pay black athletes. The conferences of each team to make it into the college football playoffs will earn its conference six million dollars each. The organization that is in charge of the college football playoffs will take in about 470

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    currently 17 higher education institutions in the borough. With such a large population and number of colleges, one would assume that there would be more than a few football programs. However, believe it or it, there is only one college football program in Brooklyn! The ASA Avengers College Football program is the only one of its kind in Brooklyn. The Avengers play in the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) Division 1. They are currently ranked 17th in the country! What is more

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    running backs in all of college football. Leonard Fournette from LSU is a 2016 Heisman favorite and is coming off a superb sophomore season. On the others side, Corey Clement from Wisconsin is looking to rebound from an injury filled 2015 season and reposition himself as a solid Big Ten running back. While this first primetime game of 2016 will feature two great running backs, there are other rushers who are worth watching and hard to tackle. Even though college football has moved to a spread approach

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    Untangling the Trojans’ Web of Lies: Crisis Communication in College Football Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines Maddie Yerant Auburn University Late in August this year, at the crack of college football season, University of Southern Carolina football player Josh Shaw achieved what seemed almost impossible: he became a hero, then a villain – all in a matter of hours. Two sprained ankles turned from the heroic act of saving a drowning child to running from the police at

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