H. G. Bissinger Quotes

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

H. G. Bissinger

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• In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Education
  • College
  • Purpose