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[QUOTE="reedny, post: 2347955, member: 1423"]
"Labor", nonsense. Others have made a similar argument (that the NCAA is an employer/anti-trust violator) and it hasn't gained traction in the Courts (beyond stipends) because it doesn't give proper credence to the legal limitations on NPF corporations or the amateur bargain that is struck between athletes and universities. Student athletes on scholarship at educational institutions are, by "definition", amateurs -- even if you insist there's a "market" for a few of them. Maybe some prospects will dismiss college/education the way you do. If so, they can go to Europe and come back to the NBA in a year. The choice is theirs, even if you don't think it's lucrative enough. The rest of your post is disappointingly dismissive of what goes on in the classroom at SU and other legitimate universities. But even putting education aside, I still can't accept your theory that college is a "market" (and all student athletes are professional assets) simply because Universities charge tuition and accept TV revenue.  That's ludicrous ... as many NPF's (from hospitals to the red cross) operate the same way, and use volunteers extensively. You have offered no reason to scrap the whole amateur model just for a few hundred "valuable" prospects, when there are hundreds of thousands of SA's benefiting - and appreciating - the education they're receiving.
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