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Message: [QUOTE="triplethrea, post: 1076937, member: 1574"] Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself. There's talk about including #2 in the next CBA. #1 is interesting but will only lead to Juniors and Seniors being drafted lower so teams don't have to pay extra. It may end up hurting upperclassmen even more. I like the ideas, but I still feel it is the burden of the NCAA to reward players staying longer. You draw the line like this: Will the broadcasting school PAY the student to become a student at Syracuse? They probably won't since one single student (or 13) won't increase the revenue of the broadcasting program. Although I could imagine a kid who is a phenom in high school for broadcasting with a lot of media attention, might get offered money to attend Syracuse if it was allowed. Will the basketball programs pay money to a recruit if it was allowed? If the answer is yes (and with so much "shady" stuff going on today, I'd say it's a definite yes), then they should be allowed to. Otherwise you are denying the young adult a chance to earn money that he would be able to earn. The same people in denial that colleges are willing to pay players are making "Pay Pal Cal" jokes in other threads for years. See the logical hypocrisy? On one hand you're denying colleges would ever pay kids, but on the other you're accusing schools of paying kids. In that case, would it not make sense to say that [I][B]if it was allowed[/B] [/I]that [B][I]some schools[/I][/B] would pay money for [I][B]some[/B] [/I]recruits? Why are we disallowing it? Because we hate to see 18 year olds make more money in a year than we ever will? I think there is a subconscious "they don't deserve it because they're too young and stupid" bias going on with a lot of people, that refuses to let them see the economic reality. Also, why wouldn't they also get tuition, room, and board? The money they get paid would be [B][I]on top of [/I][/B]their tuition, room, and board. What player would go to a school that pays him and doesn't cover tuition? The point of paying players is to [I][B]lure them [/B][/I]to play for the school. People seem to take this to mean they are going to use it to screw the player somehow. It's the opposite. I like how you try to take the rug from under my argument by practically saying "there's more to life than economics", but then don't offer any non-economic reasons. [/QUOTE]

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