More bad news for Community College Football programs

Let's hear some more!!!!!!! Very good link. I wish they would investigate the RRCC Football program. I "wonder" what they could uncover??

let it snow,

That was me!! "Rumor" has it, that they depleted their "government" food debit cards (or whatever they are called), and have just about depleted the food shelf!! So, now it must be time to head back south. I'll be looking forward to their return!!!!

I'm sure they aren't the first college to pull strings to make a player eligible. Look at what we let some of our celebs and pro athletes get away with. It's all about that almighty dollar.

Excellent idea. Take the taxpayer money spent on the football team, and the FREE scholarships given to these players (for usually ONE semester) and give it to local people to get a REAL education. And like you say, expand the programs offered. What have all the thousands of dollars poured into the RRCC Football program done for the Falls area?? If you ran a business like that, they would fire you!!

It would be interesting to know how much money is spent per year on the RRCC athletics as a whole. I think that part of the reason athletics are offered is to lure young people up here to attend our community college. It would be just as interesting to know how much is spent on the Golden Gophers and Bulldogs and the BSU Beavers and all the rest. After all, it is all the same taxpayer's money.

Maybe the college should let the public know if we have a problem here. grades that is. I have had issues related to the football program at rrcc for 1.5 years. i also know that most of the information on these blogs is true. i guess silence is golden however the truth should be made known and acted on by the powers to be. come on rrcc let's have it...NO....well thx anyways!

RRCC Does not offer athletic scholarships.

I like the word civilized that norpole uses because most discussions of college sports in American, particularly when they relate to football and basketball, the sports with great minority population, are not civilized. Every incident makes the headlines and white racism loves the stories because they confirm everything we think to be true.
What is always missed in the discussion is the degree to which athletics becomes an instrument of social transformation in America. Two of my best church buddies, old guys like me, are very well-to-do and fairly well-placed former jocks, both black, who went to college, like me, to play football. They were likely the first from their families to go away to school and they were rough around the edges. Kind of like Alan Page, the Minnesota Supreme Court judge. Kind of like a lot of the hockey players out of FHS who went to colleges like West Point or Harvard or Colorado College to play hockey and along the way became major contributors to society.
Sports develops young people, especially poor young people. When Russell Johnson left the farm to go to play basketball and run track at Bemidji State or when Bronko Nagurski left the Falls [actually Bemidji HS} to go to the University of Minnesota, they put themselves and their eventual families onto a pathway to improve the family fortunes forever.
So I am a sports liberal. i believe that it works a thousand times better than welfare or any other government program because it has the potential to take some really high risk young people and transform them and their families forever. And along the way some of them run amuck. But some of them don't. And those that won't will not likely spend large chunks of their lives incarcerated. Unless, of course, they are named O.J.Simpson. But that's an entirely different issue.

So I awoke the beast of roj1950. After your sensitive homeless shelter postings of the last week, I thought we were going to have to rename you roj2010 but, like you, I can always press the button that only rings in your cage.
For all of our readers' information, RRCC is a governmental program and a good one. The state loses money on every student, athlete or not, and very many of those who start a program do not finish one but success isn't measured by failures; it's measured by successes. The same holds true for sports and their ability to transform lives. It's the old invisible hand -- everyone probably acts out of their own personal interest but in the end society wins. I can think of no great advantage to be gained by ending football at RRCC just as I can think of no advantage to be gained by closing RRCC down. But if you remove programs that add up to fifty students per semester to a school set in a declining community, you kill it. And if it dies, we are indeed back in 1950 along with Mr. roj and his wisdom of the deep south.

As I noted earlier, if you have a problem with RRCC students or their athletic programs, the best place to find answers would be at RRCC. If you think that some students are getting food shelf help, then you should see the people at the Food Shelf and ask them what the criteria is to keep from starving. As to living in the 1950's, yes, that was a time of great prosperity for our area. But the Insulite shut down, people left town, the school rosters shrunk, and people bypass us for Canada for their tourism dollar. Successive Republican regimes have decimated our beloved small town by crippling the home owner, the tax payer, the union member and the family. When you add it all up, we are lucky not to be more than a gas station stop to Canada. Here's to a better tomorrow and less living in the past. P.S. thanks TLJ for your wisdom.