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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2340986, member: 2133"] Just like anyone else. A person's labor should be an open market. Efforts to restrict free agency just result in shady dealings. Colleges and universities shouldn't be in the professional sports business. If they want to though, the should operate the revenue teams as a separate subsidiary (e.g., the Syracuse University Sports Academy) with separate books. I don't know if that would violate any school's specific bylaws and charters, but trying to square the circle that revenue athletes are amateur is a losing battle. All it does is force everyone involved to play complicated games to avoid the obvious. Let the pro-ready kids go pro, the others can sign contracts and play for their sports academies and earn a lifetime scholarship (apparently Duke and UK already offer this, not sure about SU). What would change? Alabama and UK would get the best recruits? As opposed to now? [/QUOTE]