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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 1341212, member: 2133"] This is like #405 on the list of things that I worry about. The colleges and universities need to get out of the professional sports business if they don't want to pay their players. Why is revenue for college basketball and football so great compared to college hockey and baseball? Is it because those latter sports don't generate revenue as professional sports? Nope. MLB is pretty close to NFL in revenue and the NHL is only a billion or so behind the NBA. IMO, it's because college baseball and college hockey don't always get the best young players because they have the opportunity to play professionally out of high school. The professional leagues in conjunction with the NCAA (implicitly or explicitly) all work to limit the freedom of young athletes to earn their money through college athletics, drafts, rookie wage scales, and limiting free agency. [/QUOTE]