The Boston Globe ran an editorial today on Northeastern University’s decision to end its 74-year old football program. In the editorial, they praised the Northeastern team noting that “to the less-discerning eye, the players appeared just as massive and talented as their counterparts at the more prestigious, bowl-eligible programs, such as Boston College.”
It’s tempting to resort to the stereotypical accusation that the Ivy-elites at the Globe couldn’t discern the difference between a major 1-A contest and Hamilton-Middlebury, but clearly not everyone at the Globe comes from the sort of academic background that makes it possible to confuse the Harvard-Yale game with the Rose Bowl.
I think the most straightforward observation to make here is to say that if the Globe editorial writers can’t tell the difference between the CAA and the ACC, perhaps they would be better to leave commentary on athletics to their colleagues in the sports department. They would make lesser fools of themselves that way.
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