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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1912363, member: 780"] Like in chess, you can't view putting college athletes on a salary as a single step. Although it may not be the intent, it will lead to other things. Some of which no one will be able to predict. I have no idea the extent to which I am typical, but the professionalism of big time college athletics is already close to the line for me. I laugh every time I hear the oft-repeated "student-athlete" term. The money, the TV coverage, the spectacle is way down the path towards being a professional league with little connection to the schools they are supposed to represent. If you keep moving in this direction --- and putting athletes on the payroll is certainly a step --- then eventually the whole sham becomes obvious to everyone. Which is fine, I guess. But if the Syracuse team was disassociated from the University, than I would have little interest in the semi-pro or minor league team based in Central New York. [/QUOTE]