To the Editor:

On Saturday, I watched my son, Kevin Jobity Jr. , play his last game of college football. And with it comes a flood of emotions.

College football has changed — a lot —since Jr. took the field as a true freshman four years ago. With the infusion of NIL money and volatility of the transfer portal, I’ve watched him go from an 18-year-old kid just trying to decide between beef jerky and stale crackers or a $40 Uber Eats splurge for lunch, to a grown man trudging through snow to make a midnight practice and cutting checks for income taxes.

Folks (myself included, pre-2022) really underestimate the work, sweat, blood, tears and body-battering these young men take. Not monthly. Not weekly. Daily. Most people cannot and would not subject themselves to it, even for a “free” de

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