College football, like pro football, and all professional sports for that matter, is well on its way to ruin on a path paved with greenbacks. When the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil it is not exaggerating, but stating a divinely inspired and infallible truth. When I was growing up and playing ball, we were taught that sports, first and foremost, was all about building character. It taught us to be gracious winners and good losers. Today, however, sports are all about the cash unsportsmanlike characters are paid to play. Instead of lining up to shake hands after the game, like we used to do, punches are thrown today, like the one Miami’s Mark Fletcher threw at Indiana’s Tyrique Tucker after Monday night’s national championship game. I remember when something like this would have got you kicked off the team. Fletcher, on the other hand, will be a front runner for next year’s Heisman Trophy and a millionaire before his college career is over, like his teammate, Carson Beck, who was paid $4 million to play this season and drives around in a $300,000 Lamborghini.

MIAMI STAR THROWS PUNCH AT INDIANA PLAYER AFTER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP LOSS