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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 4495172, member: 60"]
First, student-athlete was a made up term to avoid having to pay workers' compensation in the 50s. Let's reset the understanding of that term. It's been twisted as a faux-altruistic term that gets used in marketing and not in practice.

Second, these players have been treated like pro athletes or semi-pro athletes forever. Use of their likeness, having agents illegally tampering with them, payments to them and other benefits. You think SU players weren't dealing with this in some capacity?

What *you* want or would do is not the same as what these athletes want or would do. It's not apples to apples. It's apples to plastic fruit.

I can say this, if you were cool with SU football in the late 90s and early 00s, I'm telling you if you thought these guys weren't dealing with this stuff in some capacity, you aren't right. And you were still rooting for the team. As was I. I'm not saying anything was bad. I'm not saying that at all. But I'm telling you what these dudes deal with is not just playing ball for cuse and enjoying all the benefits of being the BMOC.

I get it, I do. I would love for these guys to stick around til they can enter the draft or graduate, but that's just not fair nor has it been some garden of eden prior.

Also, I wholeheartedly disagree that Cuse can't compete as a second tier school.
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