Privatizing the schools or privatizing sports will not solve the basic problem. Moreover, the problem itself is easier to address than the more complicated and basic problem of removing all tax money from education.

First, you will find that college football is largely self-funding. It is a direct money maker for the school. Secondarily, winning teams draw donors to endowments. That, too, is a fact you cannot easily change. We might agree that it is silly and in a rational society, this would not happen, but the fact remains here and now, that this is how people act. College football is a major cash flow. That is why athletic directors and coaches make more than academic deans and department heads. The economic argument is on their side.

You might say that if you go to a Catholic school such as Boston College, Georgetown, or Notre Dame, then you can expect Catholic masses, etc., as part of the culture - and similarly for Southern Methodist University, Boston University, etc. And that might be fine. But what about a nominally non-religious school, such as Stanford?

You will find evangelical Christians in all walks of life and they are not shy. I ran into two at a job I worked (briefly) at a Blue Cross data center. At lunch the manager asked me my religion. The programmer sat down. I said that I do not discuss it because it leads to arguments over whether the Bishop of Rome is the Vicar of Christ. At which point, the programmer and the manager both came out for Jesus: one Catholic, the other Baptist, and both looking at me. My company removed me from the site the next day "at the customer's request." Jihad is not limited to Islam.

The solution is both simple and obvious...withdraw public funding for all extra-curricular activities at state funded institutions. If students want a football team, they should band together and set up funding for themselves, and of course the funds from ticket sales, etc. could fund the on-going activity. (Of course, the school itself would receive no part of these funds.). In this way, if a group of Methodists for example wanted a prayer service, they could arrange for it themselves and those who don't want to participate simply don't. This would satisfy any issue of separation of church and state.

If they privitized them this would not even be an issue.

FFRF is based here in Madison. I used to listen to them on the Mic 92.1 years ago. . I think they still do the show. I liked Annie Laurie Gaylor. Her husband's radio voice/personality was a little grating for me, but I appreciate both their work.