Comments about ‘Letter: Education and football priorities skewed?’

It is money, BCS and bowls for instance, that skews the equation. Schools and fans fantasize that win-loss translates into educational excellence. The Ivy League, MIT, Cal Tech, and others clearly negate that argument. There may even be a negative correlation between athletic success and quality education as demonstrated by Auburn, USC and others. College athletics are meant to entertain and make money, not to improve educational performance.

The fact is there are about 1,700 players in the NFL. There are 3.6 million teachers.
If you can do something; that most people cannot do, then you make more money.

We bemoan the poor state of education in our state. Yet, what are the headlines in the paper today? It's all about high school football. The biggest problem with education today is that our societal priorities are in the wrong place, and not only do we not want to correct it we want someone else, a teacher, to do it for us.

Sports have become the opiate that stupefies our society and numbs us to what should really be important in our lives. It's a sad and sickening case of misplaced priorities.