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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2154595, member: 966"] I'm going to call myself a "purist." College is college. You go to college to [I]prepare[/I] for professionalism. College gives you a VERY EXPENSIVE education. Room and board. Training. Facilities. Exposure. The Thrills. Adulation. Chicks... That's not worth nothing. If you graduate and never play a minute of pro ball, you have a degree, if you take advantage of the offer. Playing ball towards earning future ball contracts is another benefit. If everyone is so upset about 18 year olds not being able to earn more than the value of the scholarship, start a real independent, jr. pro 'prep' league. See what the audience would be for kids not yet at the NBA level, and who haven't established any significant brand identity because College is the best platform for developing that. If a Tyler Lydon, for example, had never come to syracuse, but instead wanted to get paid out of high school, he'd try out for the Albany Moon Dogs. He'd play in small, empty gyms along the east coast. Get paid. Develop a little, under noob coaches also auditioning for jobs, and then the NBA might come sniffing. No one would really care who Tyler Lydon was, because no one would have any investment in him/his brand. I'm not averse to a payment to ALL athletes, directly from the NCAA, at an amount that roughly corresponds to what an 'student-academic' might earn in a Work/Study program. Consider sports a 'university job.' So, like an egg head who gets a full academic scholarship and also chooses to work for spending money. I don't subscribe to the belief that everyone 'working' for a highly profitable enterprise is entitled to revenue sharing. Players have already been compensated, at a level beyond 99% of their 'colleagues.' An education/degree has a value. That's why everyone goes into so much debt to acquire one. Just because they don't expect to use it is irrelevant. My car insurance has a value, and i don't expect to use it, either. [/QUOTE]

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