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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 136058, member: 381"]
I would rather watch Syracuse University play a high level of amateur athletics with student athletes than watch professional sports. I don't consider that watching "lesser players" any more than I consider watching SU basketball now as being an inferior experience to watching the NBA. I have no interest in the NBA.

College sports IS an established business model. But this very thread indicates that it has problems. To fix this problem, you want to change the business model by making college sports into professional sports. I suggest the more appropriate "fix" is to go the opposite direction. Do what we can to keep amateur athletics amateur. Keep colleges in the business of education, and if athletics are a means for some kids to make their way to "free" education, that's great. If you make it professional, you will take the education out of college athletics -- more so than it is now. Now tell me which end result would do more harm to the long-term racially-oriented challenges we face in our society today -- the one that values education, or the one that is based on immediate gratification for a few bucks?

There is a great scene in the movie "Oh God" with George Burns.  He is asked if there is anything he created that he regrets creating. His answer:  Pockets.  "With pockets, people automatically want something to put in them."  That sums up the problem with making college students professional athletes, in my opinion.  The pockets will never be big enough.
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