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Message: [QUOTE="RandomGuy, post: 3159186, member: 6422"] The former head of the NCAA called college athletics a neo-plantation system -The man who coined the term "Student Athlete", and designed the whole system. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/10/13/walter-byers-ncaa[/URL] "Each generation of young persons come along and all they ask is, 'Coach, give me a chance, I can do it.' And it's a disservice to these young people that the management of intercollegiate athletics stays in place committed to an outmoded code of amateurism. "And I attribute that to, quite frankly, to the neo-plantation mentality that exists on the campuses of our country and in the conference offices and in the NCAA. The coach owns the athlete's feet, the college owns the athlete's body and the athlete's mind is supposed to comprehend a rulebook that I challenge Dave Berst, who's sitting down in this audience, to explain in rational terms to you inside of eight hours." 1994 [/QUOTE]