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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 51861, member: 285"]
Agree with the transfers, not so sure about the guys who leave early to play professionally. Is college athletics really supposed to be about preparing a kid to play professionally??? I don't think it is, although that is a nice by product if it occurs. But if it were the goal, why have them attend classes at all? Since its not the goal why give a kid who fails to make progress towards the goal a pass because he has chosen to abort his progress towards the goal and try to play professionally.   Again, it kind of comes down to what is the purpose for giving kids scholarships and having them go to college?? Is it to attend college and get a degree or promote the University's athletic department and make it money.

I think its kind of funny that the NCAA is establishing academic standards and then punishing schools for failing to meet them when it really isn't all that apparent what the NCAA's real goal is. Does it want college kids attending school to have opportunities to participate in intercollegiate athletics or does it just want to generate as much cash as possible for itself and its member institutions' athletic departments?
Always seems to me that it is the later.
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