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Originally Posted by Seahawk
The SYSTEM, not the athletes, is broken.
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I agree. But those in the middle of the system don't see that it's broke. Remember when the NCAA imposed academic standards and John Thompson claimed it was wrong to deny inner city ball players an education just because they were too stupid to do college level academics?
It's wrong that a school rakes in hundreds of millions on the backs of "student athletes" and the system says the same athletes can not share in the revenue. I think pro basketball and football need to find a different way to prepare their future players. Baseball uses farm teams. The "barely literate thugs" who want to play ball can play for a farm team for a salary and the serious student athletes can play for their university for free. But I'm afraid the current system is too good at generating revenue for it to change that drastically.