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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1754067, member: 3609"]
I guess you folks are not tuned into the amount of resentment that is building toward college sports by the non-participants.  The Canadian posters can correct me if I'm wrong, but no other university system in the world has a sports program anywhere in the same galaxy as the US.  In Japan, we used to see a collegiate sport game of the week on TV.  It usually was Keio v. Waseda, the Japanese equivalent of Harvard v. Yale.  The National HS baseball tournament was on TV, but that was it for school-connected sports.  Everything else was the pros.  A growing number of people want collegiate sports scaled back to, at best, the D-3 level, if not the club sport level. Money is the cause.  A $240,000 education (the 4-year cost of attendance at most private schools) for free is not enough?  There are a lot of kids who don't need special admission standards, babysittters, tutors, etc., who would jump at the chance for that.  The demographics of the athletes who are most visible at wanting the money make the resentment even worse.  The current male/female ratio of college attendance is a time bomb that could easily destroy the financial structure currently in place.  The D-1 schools are going to run out of sugar daddies to pay for sports and the increasing number of sugar mommies may not be willing to pay for the same things.
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