College football players are recruited out of high school by colleges. This process usually starts with a contact with a coach and the high school prospect. Several colleges recruit many of the top prospects throughout the nation. The prospect usually narrows down the choices of schools to a few. The student then visits the school, at the expense of the school for some prospects. “Prospective student-athletes may take no more than five expense-paid visits to schools.” (WeissBerg 58) During these visits, prospects check out the campuses, talk with the coach, and check out the team. On a resent visit, by a California running back to the University of Oregon, there was no typical visit. The running back went to a party near the school, and was offered drug

Through all this scandal in recruitments and at the colleges is the actual game. It is an exciting game. At the end of the season there are a series of highly commercialized bowl games. These games are all televised with two decent teams playing each one. Years ago there used to be very few bowl games and only the very best teams got to play in these games. Now there are so many different bowl games that not just the best teams play in these games. In some games two teams who had winning seasons, but nothing special, will play each other, just so the advertisers can get their product shown to the viewers, about a hundred times a game. This leads to a long and drawn out month of bowl games that are really played for nothing, but the sponsor.

Of course there are still a couple games with significant meaning at the end of the month of bowl games. These games are determined by the rankings that the teams finished in, but sometimes it is not always the best two teams who play each other in the National Championship game. In years past, the teams that appear to be able to draw in the biggest crowds and most money are put together for the national title. Money has taken over the minds of whoever runs college football, and changed it from the sport of champions that it used to be, to a game of corruption.

Getting the athletes to come to the school is not the only part of college football that is getting away from tradition. Once at the school some athletes have trouble keeping themselves out of trouble. “There was a running back, Lawerence Phillips, dragging his girlfriend by her hair down a flight of stairs and a defensive lineman, Christian Peter, accused of rape.” (Simply No End in Sight to These Transgressions, Freeman) Breaking the law is not an uncommon occurrence on college campuses, but these players are not always charged for their wrong doings. Some of these players are seen as to good to have to pay for their crimes. Not all players are as lucky. “Adrian McPhers

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