ALTOONA, Pa. -- College football is a professional sport. Can we all finally agree on that? Well, you had better agree, because if you're still trying to romanticize college athletics as some glorious amateur endeavor, then you gotta stop living in the past.
These are athlete-students. That's right. I have made a vow to stop calling them student-athletes, because that phrase is a total misrepresentation at best, and at worst it's a total lie.
At the highest levels of the sport, teams are filled primarily by kids who are in college to be athletes, not students.