college, sex, and football

The New York Times this morning had an article about how former women's colleges are starting football programs and boosting their male enrollment. Apparently the guys they attract don't feel all entitled because they don't have football scholarships, so their grades and behavior are fine. They're in college and play a sport, instead of being the school's last and best defense against the deliberately malodorous and discourteous crosstown rival. [Ed. note: the author is completely clueless as to the basis of crosstown rivalries. Also, she wasn't sure if crosstown was one word or two, and in the effort to find out, she found this picture taken by the Grammar Cop.]

Onward to an AP article that came out today about community college football players, who don't have scholarships either. [Bad news alert for individuals sensitive to bad news] Two Fresno-area [Central Valley] community college football players have been arrested for rape. Something like eight other football players from the two local community colleges are under suspicion in the same case.

So for tomorrow, compare and contrast* academic standards, financial considerations, and scholarshiplessness in small liberal arts college football and community college football.


* My college roommate pointed out that you can't compare two things without contrasting them, so English professors who use that particular construction should, I don't know, have all their classes filled up with community college football players.