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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2570671, member: 2932"] I'll start by saying I appreciate your position and the debate. And then say I disagree with just about everything here :) To drill down on my primary point of disagreement, even if you grant that NCAA is a good thing, and even if you grant that the government has some interest in promoting that, using the power of federal criminal law as the enforcer still strikes me as major overkill. An 18-year old taking $100,000 from a (legal) shoe company to go to a (legal) University to play basketball for our entertainment should not, in my world, be a criminal. Syracuse has undeniably broken NCAA rules over the past 30 years. Should Jim Boeheim have gone to jail for violating NCAA rules? Bill Rapp? Fab Melo? Terrence Roberts? I'm sure Jim Boeheim has signed some NCAA forms that he knew were not 100% accurate - should we jail him for that? [/QUOTE]