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Matt Calkins

Matt Calkins: Greed might ruin college football — but there's a good chance it helps it instead

SEATTLE — I'll start with a preface I may have to add to my author bio, as I've repeated it in some form or another more than twice: I have no idea how much the thoughts of tweeters, message-board posters or newspaper-column commenters represent the general public.

When some of my fellow ink-stained wretches say things like "people are saying x should be fired," the "people" are usually 15 randos with their cat as their profile pic.

But I'm going to indulge the online gripes of the anonymous right now, because I think they are speaking for more than just the fringe. People are saying that greed is ruining college football.

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