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Editor, News-Register:
If one watches Fox News, Newsmax, listens to talk radio, or subscribe to a conservative news podcasts, you'd swear the public education system has ruined the USA along with the epidemic of fatherless homes over the past 50-plus years. I don't think I have to explain to those on the conservative side or liberal side, who happen to be in favor of the way the nation is going, the changes over the past six decades in how academia has changed our country. On the other side of the political spectrum, the Left sticks to blaming climate change, capitalism, and the need for gun control to solve all of our problems.
Oddly , while the Right complains about the air travel of the ultra rich, global warming advocates like John Kerry and others, no one on the other side says a word about the hypocrisy. I think college sports can now unite the two sides of the global climate change issue -- more than simply complaining about the private jet-setting, multi-house owning, beach side residence, rich progressives and the other side only wishing they could only afford an electric car to show their conservative neighbors how serious they are about climate change.
Both sides should now join together over a common cause. The realignment of college sports has to be seen as ridiculous to anyone who isn't making money off of it. The term "student-athlete" was already laughed at by many. Now, we have these kids flying across country created pollution on a regular basis. Not to mention the cost of players involved in non revenue enhancing sports.
WVU fans, rightfully so, have done nothing but complain about joining the Big 12. Now we have geography meaning nothing to major college football and basketball teams.
It's time for the Greta Thunberg/John Kerry crowd to join hands with the gun loving, truck driving, Bible toting fans who love college athletics and tell ESPN, the NCAA, the money hungry college athletic departments, and others to stop all of this cross country traveling, and make college sports regional again. How in the world does it make sense to anyone but degenerate gamblers and airline CEO's and stockholders why Stanford, California, and SMU will soon travel to the East Coast of this country, while West Virginia stays in the Big 12? Numerous other examples exist, especially from the West Coast liberal colleges to the Big Ten. The green energy crowd should be joining forces with the beer drinking rednecks to correct this travesty. Won't the cost of all this traveling end minor sports for many schools? They exist off the money from football and male basketball to begin with. What will go first to save money?
Jay Knapp
Moundsville