A Hard-Hitting Critic of College Sports

Author: The editors

Even back when Allen Sack ’67 played defensive end for Notre Dame, college football was an all-consuming “extracurricular” activity. But Sack experienced nothing like the demands put on players today. A co-founder of the Drake Group, whose mission is to mitigate the corrosive academic effects of big-time college sports, Sack joins The Endless Conversation to talk about what has changed since his playing days and what could be done to restore perspective, expanding on a topic he recently wrote about for Notre Dame Magazine.