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[QUOTE="Sullycuse, post: 52191, member: 438"]
this conversation (nationally, not on this board) is an affront to everyone who paid to go to college. after a 5 year degree in architecture with no financial aid (4th of 5 kids to do so, from a blue collar family, not rich by any standards) to hear so many people say that a college education isn't worth it is absolutely offensive. is the system perfect? not by a long shot. but no one is forced to go to college, and there are roads to professional sports without college (albeit very few, and even fewer in football)

whatever happened to paying your dues? yes college athletes are advertised (the example given was kemba walker...who was under no obligation to be in college after his first year...or ever for that matter) which leads to exposure, which leads to contract negotiations...

look at the ridiculous contracts athletes negotiate before ever doing anything in the pros (jamarcus russel?)...that more than makes up for their "suffering" through college (which btw, by definition is, "a fantastical world with no real worries/responsibilities, where you are shielded from the real world throughout your time there" <- just look at the occupy groups, they have no concept of the real world)

and we want to extend that sense of entitlement beyond what it already is?

tangential thought:
does anyone else wonder if the breakdown of the regulations = the breakdown of the ncaa (arbitrary or not) = no reason for college athletes to be college athletes, why wouldn't they just set up a system similar to the MLB for the NFL, outside of academia?
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