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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 755402, member: 837"] And while we all refer to the players as kids, which more or less they are, college sports are basically professional sports these days. If the vast majority of these kids were working out all day and then hitting the books all night, then I get why you'd be really concerned about punishing them. But sports at this level are so serious that it's simply not the same as a bunch of rag tag kids getting together to play football for the JV team in high school. It's intellectually dishonest to refer to them as 'kids' at least in terms of some naive innocence. And let's not forget -- they were given a free out if they wanted it. I'm not a huge fan of all the transfers these days, but it would seem to me that there should have been at least a dozen or so kids that were sufficiently disgusted by the events that took place to know they should have gotten the hell out of there. [/QUOTE]