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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 5459620, member: 668"]
[I]"Never." "Corrupt from the very start, over a 100 years ago".[/I].. yadda yadda yadda.  Such a flawed argument IMO.

I imagine there are numerous "student athletes" from yesteryear who hardly feel that way. You don't even need to go back "100" years, perhaps not even 50.  When there was a time getting a free ride to an institution of higher learning, let alone the "premier" ones you suggest, was a dream and a true opportunity of a lifetime.

A time, when if not for such a [I]"corrupt" [/I]model, millions of folks would otherwise never of had such an incredible opportunity to pursue any of their dreams, let alone a better life, etc. that attending an institution of higher learning provided them.  There was a time when there wasn't anywhere near the amount of coin (media winfall, etc.) that schools reaped as the case today.

And, those folks in [I]"robes"[/I] you mention, are human beings, subject to all of the same, let's just say forces, etc. as all of us.

Moreover, unfortunately, greed is and has been for sometime, everywhere in our culture/society today.
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