But you wouldn't know that from the reactions of college coaches, who grabbed the big guns to declare their outrage at this intrusion upon the sacred fields of Friday Night Football. You could all but feel the mist of the sea as the defenders of college football manned the ramparts. Speaking of which, American Football Coaches Association executive director Grant Teaff, a man recently voted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his efforts on behalf of the game, all but asked for a Congressional investigation into how the NCAA could promote such a travesty of justice. The problems of high school football are well known, chiefly because my colleagues at Sports Illustrated have written about them. Kids don't want to play football anymore.
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So can parents with visions of scholarships dancing in their heads. Where this NCAA action is concerned, those problems are irrelevant. We shake our heads at the Ahab -like quest to make a rule for everything intercollegiate. We gnash our teeth in worry over the financial arms race that has increasingly turned Division I-A into the gated community of NCAA football. The decision to allow schools to play on Friday nights attacks both those problems.