There Is No Cat - For the glory (and a little cash)

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Saturday, December 21, 2002

For the glory (and a little cash)

There's a fascinating and lengthy story in this week's The New York Times Magazine about the cash-hungry monster that is college football. The story focuses on the University of South Florida, a school that's pretty new to the game, and has expended a lot of effort in building a program as a way to build a name for the university itself, with some success. I have to say, when I was looking at colleges lo! these many years ago, picking one that had a good football program actually was a consideration. Silly me. Anyway, the story's interesting, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture of the game. But then, you could probably guess that from the article's title: "Football is a Sucker's Game".

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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

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