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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2347697, member: 2133"] This is the root of the problem. Colleges and the NCAA are too busy trying to figure out how to keep an insanely valuable market closed and rigged. College athletes are valuable, much more valuable than the actual (not nominal) value of their supposed compensation (i.e., scholarships). There more the NCAA and colleges try to avoid this inconvenient truth, the more cheating happens, and the more restrictions and regulations they have to impose, which leads to more cheating, etc. (until they're down to regulating whether an athlete can have cream cheese on their bagel). Get out of the professional sports business, or just spin it off as a tangential but academically unrelated sports academy, and a lot of the problems go away because athletes can be treated like regular employees - which they are. It gets them out of the title IX issues, academic issues, payment issues, booster issues, etc. [/QUOTE]