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[QUOTE="triplethrea, post: 136104, member: 1574"]
You're clearly not getting my point. No, you don't technically have to go to college to play in the pros, but you HAVE TO go to college to play in the pros. You feel me? I don't like semantics, they're boring. I like to cut the BS.

Go and talk to the NBA or NFL about the minor league system. See if they budge. They work together with the NCAA. That's why there is the cartel cry. There is just no other realistic and responsible choice. Why do players have to sacrifice their earnings because "that's just the way it is". Why is everybody getting paid except the players? That's the issue at play here. Everybody is getting paid except the ones that deserve it the most.

A college education is absolutely no guarantee that one has a successful post-grad career. In case you haven't heard a lot of college grads have been participating in something called the Occupy movement.

And I already replied to your last point. I want the athletes to get the scholarship + whatever else the university offers. If that's just a stipend then that is fine. I'm not debating that we should have free agency and all that jazz, I did not want it to seem that is what I wanted. But I do believe players should be able to profit as much from their 15 minutes of fame as an other person should
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