... sixty four teams and there is the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). This allows an additional 32 teams to compete in post season basketball. This could easily be done with the college football system, creating another sixteen team playoff bracket, allowing more players to play, as well as give their fans another chance to watch them play. This would result in a total of ... high school ball, all the way up to the NFL. I believe it's the only answer to the problem at the big schools," according to highly respected college football analysis, Kirk Herbstreit (espn Sportscenter, Decembe...

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... to the rules. You don't have to play only pro-football. Playing football during high school and earlier years look good on college applications. It prepares you for college football if that's a goal for you. As some think, college football doesn't distract players from school. You must maintain a certain ... grade to keep playing. If you are failing any classes or not maintaining this grade, you"re off the team. If college football isn't what you want, football ... may help in preparing you for other sports like soccer and basketball. Second, football teaches some very important things...

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... a more serious, long-term injury. If this did indeed occur, the player would have been emotionally crushed and probably would not have had a strong academic background to depend on for college. Since football had long been a tradition at Permian, players were pressured by their parents to play for the team and to become a star player. If a player performed poorly, he was subject ... to scrutiny by the whole town. The players became obsessed with football and saw it as their only escape. Players that were not academically gifted viewed football as a chance to attend college by way of a s...

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... the institution can show that the interests and abilities of the members of that sex have been fully and effectively accommodated by the present program. If Title IX didn't include football then that would open up more opportunities for men's sports to succeed and get more funding. However, some people could be opposed to this because they think ... 't be an exception. If a men's sport is exempt from Title IX, why not a popular women's sport, like basketball, be exempt? Also, at most schools, football is spending 40-50% of all operating dollars. If football is excluded from Title IX cove...

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... This especially goes for the people who are walk-on's for a team or join a club team. Think about how many friendships would be lost had college sports never happened. Some of the best friends a person makes is practicing with them everyday and playing their hearts out with them. How would those friends ... use is there for a mascot and school colors if there are no sports? A big debate right now in both college and professional football is whether or not Maurice Clarett should play pro football. He sat out his whole sophomore year to try and get in the draft. The official rule is three ...

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Why I picked why girls should be allowed to play boys sports is because I played football. I didn't see anything about girls are not allowed to play. I loved playing football. I think its fine to allow girls to play boys sports because they can do the same thing boys can do. If you look ... Both girls and boys learn lessons from it. The girls learn that to be more competitive and the boys learn to be more cooperative. Gen King, a college athlete said that "playing seven years with boys sharpened my skills". If she hadn't played with the boys and improved her skills, she might not ... have go...

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... for budgetary reasons, but only if the athletic department is in compliance with Title IX. Few athletic departments comply with Title IX (3). Is Football the Problem? One reason for the continued disparity in athletic opportunities is football. College football programs offer over 88 scholarships, unfortunately there is no women's counterpart. Rather, an athletic department must offer multiple women's sports to counter the ... of injury, and the need for replacements, is much greater at the pro level (4). In addition, a study conducted at Miami University, showed that only about one-hal...

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... the teams played), and number of losses." (Barrett) Candy Reagan, of the Abilene Reporter News and strong supporter of some sort of playoff system in college football, feels that letting computers have a say in who is crowned national champion is "about as bad as letting a bunch of coaches and sports writers decide ... the seasons gotten as long as thirteen and fourteen games. Twenty years ago teams played eleven games at the most, and I feel that if college football went back to an eleven game schedule, my proposal would answer all critics. I recently saw an interview with the head coac...

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... many people that are unhappy with the ranking process. Many people are unhappy with the system because the rankings for the top twenty five teams in college football is done by people, where as the voting needs to be done by a computer ranking system (For One, Criticism Doesn't Compute, net). ... Although some believe the Bowl Championship Series (B.C.S.) is the best way to determine ranking in college football, the system fails to remain fool proof, thus some think a new system should be considered as a replacement. Many people are unhappy with the current ... net). This year, for insta...

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... The NCAA should switch from the BCS to another method because there is always a worthy team or two being left out, it hurts college football traditions, and because it draws so much attention that non-BCS bowls don=t get any attention. After the very first season that the NCAA installed ... past two years, the Rose Bowl has not even included a Big Ten or a Pac-10 champion for the first time since 1946! The damage to college football=s tradition has already been done, but it can still be fixed with a different method for determining the national champion. There are four BCS games a year ....

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... reason, it was rest time for them. No one in my high school took track seriously my senior year and I took it for granted. Then college came. Yes I played football as well I am competing in track, but the atmosphere is completely different. The track team is about the TEAM, not individuals, and everyone on the ... team cares about the team. I was expecting no one to really care about track and field because from what I heard this college was a football school. And I just figured that since this school was so small it would not care about track but I think I have seen more people at trac...

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... was going to take, I never talked to most of my old friends after that day. When I went back to school as a big 8th grader I still played football, but that was only training for wrestling. The winter season had finally hit and it was time for wrestling again. Nothing spectacular happened that season but I was wrestling ... match of my senior year, it was the first time I had been pinned since my sophomore year. None of the college's could give me a scholarship because none of them thought that my body could handle college wrestling. Although my wrestling career ended badly I still had se...

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... and were beginning to fall from the trees around campus. This was a hectic time of year for most college students, and this could easily be discovered with just a glance at any one of them. The stresses of college, especially for the first year students, had now all been realized. For Greg M; however, life was ... in his class of almost 500 students. This year, his senior year, was going as well if not better. With the excitement of filling out college applications and realizing how close he was to the end of his secondary education, a day that he had been looking forward to for four ye...

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... in two ways: one being opportunity, and the other as indentured servitude. College sports like football and basketball hold a huge segment of the entertainment industry making those two particular sport seasons year round. Bigger universities ... many other businesses have a huge stake in this industry. With so much pressure to succeed, big sport programs like Duke basketball, Florida football, and Notre Dame football need top recruits to maintain or raise the standard of play to which they hold themselves. The competitive nature of the sport now leeks ... off the field and may be more...

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... the Packer's nineteen-yard line. Imagine that; the Packer's Super Bowl hopes shattered by this one kickoff return in a period of six seconds. The sudden death overtime in the National Football League contains weaknesses that must be eliminated for a better outcome. Coin tosses determine a majority of the winners in NFL overtimes. The NFL follows a sudden death overtime policy in which the ... equal chance to win." (Jeff Garcia, Quarterback, San Francisco Forty-Niners) NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue considers multiple alternatives to the change of the overtime policy. He seeks interest ...

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... year they renamed the super bowl trophy to the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy. Along with the legacy , Lombardi left a slew of great football speeches and a vision of greatness to follow. He wrote a book that introduced his famous Lombardi's leadership model, which explains how results create ... Bay Packers were currently playing. Lombardi's speech is definitely overt, intentional, and methodic. It is also audience-centered where the audience is his football team. Finally, his speech is ethics-centered. Lombardi himself had a high standard of ethics that he expected his players to fo...

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... teams are forged, when dreams of "going to state" are very real, when the hopes for big-time college football scholarships are not so far-fetched-even for little defensive backs. And here in Odessa, Texas, which may be the cradle of high school ... teamwork over individual glory, and the quaint idea that hard work beats superior talent any day of the week. The Odessa community has supported Permian football in ways that some professional sports franchises might envy. It sells 5,000 season tickets every year and regularly fills 20,000-seat Ratliff Stadium. ... look at the players' camara...

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... was stated that earlier in the movie a white storeowner killed a young black teen and the city was on the verge of chaos. However, this town loved football, it was their "way of life" and they knew that a lot of their children would be seniors and if they did not play it would hurt their ... chances at the college level. The T.C. Williams High School mascot was the Titans. Their long-time coach, Coach Yoast, was asked to step down from his Head Coach duties while ... towards the situation was handled very nicely. He began to teach the players to be a team. He had them sit on the two buss...

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... focus has been on sports. As a young man at the age of seven, my dad raised me into becoming involved with sports that included; basketball, football, and baseball. In all three sports I was one of the best little mans on the team. My dad took a lot of time out to ... more than three players on our team that were talented, so that just motivated me to practice harder , thanks to my dad. I played basketball and football, but I let go of baseball because it wasn't my kind of sport. When I graduated to the eighth grade there were lots of basketball scouts watching ... because all of the har...

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... was a diehard Notre Dame Fighting Irish fanatic. His main goal in life was not only to go to Notre Dame, but to one day be able to play football for the Fighting Irish. One of the main points in this film was goal setting. It is very important in life to set goals for yourself that you want ... to accomplish. Rudy's first goal was to be a great High School football player, which he was. He accomplished his goal by having a lot of heart and never giving up. He was not the fastest or the strongest player on the ... to get him into Notre Dame. That led to his third goal. His third goal w...

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Last Saturday I spent my night at the Commonwealth Stadium watching a bunch of college boys nearly beat themselves to death over what we like to call a football; nevertheless, I have to admit I liked it. When I first arrived I noticed that people here were true diehard wildcat fans; some had there ... of the game. It's hard to understand why these fans are so caught up into a football game, but one thing is certain, they are dedicated. My cousin, Justin, is truly a family embarrassment when it comes to football; he has managed to get in a fight with another fan or the mascot every time he .....

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... , a hard work ethic, and communication. Without my extracurricular activities, I may not have these skills today and therefore may not be in a position to contribute them to a college today. My freshman year, I began to play football. I learned valuable team work skills right from the beginning. I learned that to win and be successful, everyone has a role. No matter how big or small it may ... be, every role is still important in the aspect of succeeding. Even in my senior year of football, I still made sacrifices for the team to succeed. I knew how to be a team player and I fully knew t...

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The football playing field is rectangular in shape, measuring 100 yd (91.4 m) long and 53.5 yd (48.9 m) wide. At both ends of the 100-yard dimension, white lines called goal lines mark ... rows of lines, called hash marks, run parallel to the sidelines. The hash marks are 53 ft 4 in (16.3 m) from each sideline in college and high school football, and 70 ft 9 in (21.6 m) from each sideline in the National Football League (NFL). Each play must begin on or between the hash marks. Before each play, the officials place the ball either between the ... ...

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... Dr. Naismith worked at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. His job was to train future YMCA general secretaries. During the fall Dr. Naismith had his students play football, and during the spring they played baseball. During the cold winter months in the ... on, but nevertheless, it did. On April 24, 1896 the first intercollegiate game was play between the Minnesota State School of Agriculture and Hamline College, the score was nine to three. By 1908 the focus of power house basketball teams had shift...

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... their expenses plus some extra to keep everyone happy. For many years, television (TV) has been the primary way that sports fans can gather information about their favorite sports. From football to bowling, every sport is on television. These television stations that put these games and matches on TV strive off ratings. These Neilsen ratings tell how popular the program is ... , and Gatorade may not want to show their commercials during the playoffs due to lack of audience attention. When dealing with college sports TV ratings, people can easily get confused. Despite the fact that local ...

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