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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1754701, member: 3609"]
Please remember, all of this really isn't about the money.  It is about requiring fb and bball players to go through the motions of attending class.  The number of non-rev athletes who would avail themselves of, let alone benefit from, not being required to go to class is very, very small.  And there are way more non-rev athletes.

While #2 may be true about private schools it is not true about most every public school.  Virginia has a law which prohibits state financial aid money from being used for athletes.  Every semester the UVa Bursar's office sends a bill to the Athletic Department for the tuition and fees for the scholarship athletes and the Virginia Athletics Foundation, the private fund-raising arm of the Athletic Department, writes a check to cover it.  Same thing happens at VPI, James Madison, George Mason, VCU, Longwood, William & Mary, Virginia State, Christopher Newport, and Old Dominion.  (I may have forgotten a couple.)

While #6 is probably true, there will be fewer of the "top teams".  Bilas has argued for a long time for not requiring fb and bball players to go to class; that colleges sponsor teams of non-students to wear their colors, etc., and play in their name.  The Universities in Mexico City and Nuevo Leon sponsor teams in that manner in the Mexican Soccer League (the Pumas and Tigres, respectively).  A significant number of name schools will drop to whatever level is necessary to have their athletes be required to attend class.  ND will be one of them.  (I would hope UVa would be another.)  Even the most passionate proponents on their board of what Bilas advocates acknowledge that the ND administration will require all athletes regardless of sport to attend classes.  And that it's non-negotiable.
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