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Message: [QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 1756363, member: 559"] So why do star players go to college? Why not play professionally overseas? Why not just get a job? Why not challenge the NFL or NBA in court? The NBA and NFL have established minimum credentials for employment, right, wrong or indifferent. Rationale is less performance based than demonstrated maturity based IMO but the credentials are established. Players see college as a necessary means to meet those credentials - right, wrong, or indifferent. Only difference between establishing credentials as an athlete vs. establishing credentials that most other fields require is that in most other fields the applicants pay out of pocket to attain them. Yes, college athletic programs benefit financially from marquee programs in major sports but these kids are neither exploited or "sold into indentured servitude." That is just plain offensive. [/QUOTE]