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Message: [QUOTE="NateW, post: 2593550, member: 4210"] I just don’t see how college basketball could survive having programs blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on every Paul Harris that walks through the door. If he costs that much, what’s Melo worth? $2M? Imagine the bidding on football players! Private Universities could not survive an open market model. State schools would get all the best players. And then everything that makes college sports profitable would be irreparably changed forever. Conferences, rivalries, nostalgia. IMO the business model that makes college sports profitable could never survive an open market as you describe. Is that fair to the Universities? A free education is not fair? I’m not sure being a good basketball player at Niagara Falls HS should immediately garner you hundreds of thousands of dollars. [/QUOTE]