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Message: [QUOTE="ottodaorange, post: 14860, member: 567"] I think the answer is simple and the answer to most questions of this ilk... power and money. Byers started a precedent and built the NCAA into an institution based on hypocrisy. The University presidents saw the dilemma but bought in due to the temptation of the money it provided for their institutions and the NFL supported it since it was the major feeder system for its riches. I think the only true place where you still see a scholar athlete is probably at the Division III level of competition. The high level athlete is therefore trapped in a system that is unfair and quite probably illegal... but the courts will decide that. The thing that is most remarkable is that no one has really challenged the policies set by Byers before now. Also it is not just football and basketball but as the article points out baseball as well. [/QUOTE]