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[QUOTE="GHLF, post: 5295399, member: 1608"]
Agreed, I, am a purist.  I can name so many student athletes at this institution who benefited greatly from a full scholarship.  Tremendously successful because of their education.  We, as a school at that time were very successful in both basketball and football.  Mid to late 90s.  Certainly, the student-athlete had to take advantage of an extremely rigorous schedule to navigate academics and athletics.  However if done so it literarily propels you for so many amazing opportunities.  Coach Fran Brown still knows this.  I acknowledge many fall through the cracks, just like the regular student population.  However, I am greatly concerned for the current student-athlete in relation to the ability to transfer, and potentially endure under hard circumstances to an even greater degree now, as the grass is definitely less green on the other side IMO, while also watching the select few players that get paid even at the p5 level.  I am all for proper player compensation, however at what cost?  At the expense of all of the other lower-level to mid-level players who will not get paid, they become influenced with delusions of grandeur while global academic sabotage occurs to a massive degree at an even greater level.  That's enough, and I know what an amazing college degree and experience can do for the athlete and the student body.
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