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[QUOTE="triplethrea, post: 2322695, member: 1574"]
The NCAA gives them an offer they can't refuse. The "they don't have to go to college" talking point has always been disingenuous.

Nobody is turning college into the D-League, it has already been the D-League for decades. I just don't see a way to fix this without burning it all down. If you put dirt in your cake and put it in the oven, you can't just take the dirt out after, you have to throw the cake in the garbage and make a new one. I think that's a good metaphor for college sports. Deeply, deeply corrupt. You may not want to talk about the true value of education, but I find the NCAA's student-athlete to be a mockery of education, and nothing more than a mouthpiece for legal slavery, with extremely deep racial undertones. "You should be happy you're getting a scholarship! Your education is priceless!" All while stealing millions of their dollars, and giving them crumbs under the table through intermediaries to steer them in certain directions. If that's not gaslighting, I don't know what is. Real psychopathic stuff. The idealism doesn't match the reality, and never really has IMO. You can't fix a system like that.
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