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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 2327141, member: 1423"] I've seen the same nonsense asserted in the "burn it down" thread. The argument goes like this: there's lots of money and cheating, so let's just give up on education for amateur athletes altogether and ask our universities to operate a d-league for FB and BB kids, pay them like semi-pros and pass them through to the professional ranks. Unfortunately, this reasoning throws the baby out with the bathwater: It ignores the fact that much of the cheating is outside the NCAA bubble (shoe companies; AAU, etc.); it devalues education; it turns amateurism on its head; and it embraces the worst element of college sports (UK) as the model for everyone. Ridiculous. [/QUOTE]