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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4653428, member: 5685"] Really? You think a kid that is there only a few months is taking education seriously? That the schools aren't making concessions to keep the kids eligible? That with all this NIL money kids are paying more attention in class? Seems naive to me. Even before the freedom of movement and before NIL the student in student athlete was a farce. The high level athletes are there to become better high level athletes. Not to become an accountant or a teacher. The schools exist to provide education. So why keep the charade going? Let's keep the academic side pure and remove big time BBall and Football (maybe baseball too). Let's all go Ivy and eliminate athletic scholarships. Let's remove the TV money from NCAA sports. That will bring about purity. Then we will have students who play sports, instead of athletes who play students. But schools do not want to give up big time sports. So either you sponsor the 18-22 non academic leagues, or keep things as is. IMO no one wins keeping things as is. The quality of the sport will be worse. That along with the yearly player movement will make fans less interested. So if those are your two realistic choices, why chose the later? I get the "colleges shouldn't be minor leagues or involved in big time sports that isn't their purpose" argument. But at this point the only solution is to completely give it up. So why would a big time athletic program agree to give up big time sports? Because of the school's mission statement? That isn't enough. If you aren't willing to give it up, you need to make the best of the situation. IMO making the best of the situation is a non academic 18-22 year old league sponsored by the schools. That is the best of both worlds. Big time sports have no place in academia. So why keep trying to merge the two when you can simply separate the two? You make your academics better and you increase the quality of your sports. And by this I am only referring to FB, BBall, and Baseball. The other sports can stay as is. Those athletes are in schools for an education, not sports. The European sporting club model isn't just about making money. There is an altruistic side of it as well. Also many help educate their athletes. So IMO a college sporting club model would fit into the mission of colleges. In that case they would not be a minor league (especially if only 18-22) but a center of athlete training, promoting the importance of sport, and making a better society. [/QUOTE]

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