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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2465782, member: 27"]
I celebrate any scholarship athlete graduating from college, especially the ones that play revenue sports that have enormous time commitments.

We differ in that I care about the future of college athletes.  I want to see kids have a path to get a 'free' education by utilizing their talents as athletes.

What you are embracing hurts fan interest.  What you are embracing affects the bottom line for budgets for college athletic departments.  I think a future where transferring is commonplace and rosters turn off dramatically every year is going to disallusion most fans and spur further drops in fan attendance and viewership of games.

These proposed changes are going to help the richest schools and hurt all the other schools.  You are going to end up with less competitiveness in college sports, less interest and less support from the fans, the ones that make it all possible.

It is great you care about the athletes.  I do too.  But you have to consider the interests and desires of the people that pay for everything as well.  If the fans stop caring about college sports, the scholarships dry up and the athletes are left with nothing.

I hope the NCAA has the foresight to reject this proposal.
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