Horse Blinders

It is both amazing and frightening how single minded these people are towards football. On one hand it is so nice to see such devotion. It is rare to see people today so devoted to a single thing. On the other hand being devoted to football seems like such a ridiculous thing to be devoted to. Maybe it is because I never got the point of watching sports. I did not see the point in watching others play sports. When I did have to watch sports I did get involved in the game, but I never reached the level of fanaticism that these people in the article have. I always thought about how sports drew the attention of all the fans away from more pressing issues, be it campus budgets or world issues. It seems that there is always some sport season starting when one ends so that there is never really time for a sports fan to take a break and look away from the world of sports. This article does a good job showing how the people of USF want so bad to be like the other top football schools, and how absurd it is because of the staggering amount of money needed to keep the program going and how the school justifies taking money away from the school’s general budget for football when football already has an enormous budget. I would have liked to see the impact this has on the rest of the school. Are they struggling with lacking science facilities? Are the computer labs outdated? Are there repairs being neglected so that these people can live vicariously through the football players?