bull in a ring. oklahoma, yeah, we all did those drills. but, again, u.s. football is doing heads up football. there s a lot of things, we can t keep living in retrospect about how the game used to be, but each generation will improve as far as their knowledge. tell all my 75-year-old little ladies who are watching at home what the heads up is, just so that folks know. usa football is the partnership with the nfl. the youth government body and it teaches about proper tackling, proper education, and they re going into little, minute communities in alabama, missouri, whenever, and teaching the proper tackling that doesn t encourage clothesline tackles or head-to-head tackles. so this generation from the youth level will trickle up. you re finding on the big end, you re finding more fines for the nfl, and on the youth end, they are teaching better technique. and those fine that s definitely right. that said, those fines are going for the kind of hits like the scud and patriot mi
likenesses are in the games. and at a minimum, they re having to pay to get the game, to download it or whatever. is it strange? because the truth is, we do, those of us who are renumerated for being on television, we do lose some control of our image, name, likeness, that sort of thing, but we re paid a salary for it. the question is whether or not the transaction of a college education is a sufficient salary. well, you don t lose control of your image to this extent. no. the texas a&m press release that announced johnny manziel suspension had a photo on it, a buy this photo on it. the most tone deaf press release of all time. and the video games are saying, oh, it s the same look and same number, that s just coincidence. so with respect to the college education, obviously an important thing, but there s a lot of evidence suggesting that these players are being brought in, football s a full-time job, in many cases they re not as well prepared as other students
football team, he remains bound to a wheelchair. nicole, i wanted to talk about devon in part because obviously it s happening on my campus, this kid has got a huge spirit. but it s also been interesting to me that since his injury, in certain ways, it s almost like tulane football is almost it s almost more popular, like, almost as though this tragedy brought people who wouldn t otherwise think very much about football on to the side of the green wave when they might otherwise just be sort of academic students on campus. which i find both wonderful and a little awful that devon s injury would inspire us in this way. yeah, i think we see that every single time there have been we were talking about eric la grande during the break at rutgers, and it sort of galvanizes the community. and i was looking at the tulane website, and right off the home page, essentially, you can go to raise money for devon walker. and also different ways the community has been helping him
say, i am so appreciative of you finding the time. i know it is hard to find the time to be here today and for giving us your voice at the table. it s okay. thank you. dorian warren, i m going to see you in the next hour, gabrielle, thank you for being here, andrew, thank you for being here and getting a little beat up, and also thank you to shaniqua davis. coming up next, we ll take a closer look at the big business of college ball. i love football! plus, the 12-year-old, wait until you meet her, who s already fighting for her right to vote. there is more nerdland at the top of the hour.
coming in and some of them are being done a disservice in their education. so then does the argument become that what you just need is a minor league sports team for football, just as we have for baseball, and separate out what s going on with college. the college athletics becomes truly amateur. but those on the pro track go into paid minor leagues. i think that would be great, but i don t think people want that, because, obviously, there are people that have attachments to that school, but it s worth noting that the united states is the only country in the world that attaches big-time athletics to its higher education systems. so i don t think that that makes, you know, people we re really invested in the notion of, like, athletes representing your school and the college sports represents something larger than itself. and not just emotionally invested, but we were looking at this dead spin graphic, that was just obscene, because when you look at the number of states where the