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Message: [QUOTE="rrlbees, post: 136092, member: 96"] I'm just not getting your point at all. You do NOT have to go to college to play in the NBA or NFL. Any age restrictions the NBA or NFL put in is their rule, not the NCAA's. You seem to want pay for play vs giving college athletes a stipend. Fine, you like the baseball model. So go talk to the NBA and NFL about setting up a minor league where more kids would get paid to play for pay sooner. It's not the NCAA that would set up a professional minor league system for those 2 sports. BTW, I just checked and the difference in lifetime earnings between a kid with a HS degree and a 4 year college degree is about $1M. So you can add that to your value of a college education. And yes, I know some athletes would go to college even without the scholarship, but many wouldn't or couldn't. [/QUOTE]