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Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn
Both my son and I are WSU graduates. A lot of my buddies who are alums are crying foul about the way the PAC 12 imploded and how unfair it was for WSU and OSU. Who cares. College football and basketball are basically pro minor leagues. The idea of a student athlete is a joke and has been for decades. It's about the $'s and a very select few moving to the pros. I worked in the dorm system when I was an undergrad, and dealt with a ton of football players and coaches. Seeing how the sausage is made makes one very cynical about college sports, or the big ones anyway.
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Yup. Beyond that, the very most exploitative, racist meat grinder extant today. These kids are no more than livestock - the recruiting and coaching staffs fall just short of checking their teeth and hooves when reviewing recruits. They take them in, chew them up, and spit them out with nary a care in the world. The 99% that don't make it to (much less in) the NFL have nothing to fall back on, their "college degrees" being worth functionally less than the very paper on which they are written. Pretty hard to care just which schools are making how much money exploiting these kids and filling them with so much false promise. And the ones filling the bleachers, driving the revenue, are cast aside after four years like a used condom. Yeah, I might be a bit cynical...