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[QUOTE="Shenexon, post: 4589201, member: 129"] I've become more discouraged as a fan over the past few years and no current events are improving that perspective. Not everything is about money but that's the road we've chosen. Not just SU but other educational institutions in a conspiracy of greed. It sounds as though many premier schools will stop requiring their players to be students to focus on playing their sport and making more money for their "school". Many of those schools are operated by various states. When players are just hired by the schools to make money for them, how is that not interference in the free market by states? Are states allowed to sanction or operate commercial entities? If the enterprise no longer has links to the educational institution other than financial, how is that not state-sanctioned commercial enterprise? If I was a group that wanted to own a professional sports franchise, I'd take offense to the state competing with me. As a fan, we were in the ECAC when I joined. That was pretty good for a while. We played regional teams and thrived, at least as an athletic organization. Then we helped form the Big East, and that was pretty good for a while. Our basketball was at its zenith and we played well in football. Then we joined the ACC, solely because we needed or wanted the money. We haven't competed well in either since we made the move, and now are fretting about the failure of SU's sports programs because we won't be aligned with the schools that command the majority of the tv cash for the content provided by college athletics. I just want it all to make sense. Align with peers that make sense, make what money SU can for broadcast rights to the quality athletic contests that are our tradition, line up with whoever takes the field or court against us, and compete. SU is an educational institution. It used to be enough that kids could go to school for free because of their athletic ability. That's still meaningful to the majority of college players, though profit-sharing should be a thing. Personally, I don't want SU to solely become a semi-pro minor league feeder program to the pro leagues. "College" players should be students who also play sports. What's the meaning otherwise? [/QUOTE]
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