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Sports like academic clubs are exactly the same;

Extracurricular
ˌekstrəkəˈrikyələr
adjective
(of an activity at a school or college) pursued in addition to the normal course of education.

Certainly sports (football) are important but lets not over state it. I think academics and extracurricular activities should go hand in hand.

And to say that non revenue sports get money "stolen" from football is beyond ludicrous. 1. If it is all about the kids like some of you are saying it should be about all the kids. 2. Kids who play football play other (non revenue) sports 3. Most schools expect the "non revenue" sports to raise money. The reason they hare called non revenue is because they don't bring in the same amount of money that football does, but they do produce revenue, heck Red Book will not let you run in the red......

Maybe if Bell Fans think football is more important than academics, it might be time to re-adjust your thinking or just out and out shut the program down and let them play chess or join the FFA or French club.