Canzano: I'd light a candle, but the sport is on fire
College football needs changes.
I received a note from a discouraged reader this week. He told me he was done with college athletics. For the umpteenth time in the last year, a die-hard fan told me he was ready to throw in the keys.
Wrote Andy: “It has been disheartening to watch the core of what made college football great erode over the past few years.”
There was one distinct difference between this note and the dozens of others. It was not sent to me by an alum of Oregon State or Washington State, beaten down after being squeezed out of a power conference.
It wasn’t from a Stanford or Cal fan, saddened by the absurdity of those schools being in the ACC. It wasn’t written by a loyalist who donates to a marginalized program.
This note came from a USC fan.
He’s hollowed out, too.
“The sport is now NFL lite,” Andy wrote.
It’s Christmas Eve. One of my daughters woke me this morning to inform me that she’s beyond excited about what will go down in the next 24 hours. There was hope and electricity in her voice.
