College football at the highest levels remains an expensive, semiprofessional enterprise driven by high-profile coaches, managed by a small army of administrators and influenced by alumni and boosters. But club teams are sprouting at the grass-roots level, entirely orchestrated by students.
“The traditional college football world is slowly extinguishing all the iffy football programs out there,” said Anthony Morgante, the executive director of the conference and head coach of the team at B.U. “When a school decides the costs are too much, it is the club team that comes in and gives the school a football program for $30,000 instead of $3 million.
“And the kids do most of the work. The campus that missed having a football team now has one. It’s a great model.”
NYTimes.com
10/23/10
