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To: MrEdd
Back in the seventies and eighties Howard Cosell was proposing minor leagues pro sports near the universities to restore academic standards and make things equitable for academically challenged athletes.

Not sure how it'll work but I'm thinking Division I men's basketball and football teams should split from NCAA and pay players. Each player will have four years of athletic eligibility and going to class will be optional because they are employees, rather than students.

20 posted on 01/12/2016 4:34:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

And really, that should have been done forty years ago.


23 posted on 01/12/2016 4:38:18 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m thinking Division I men’s basketball and football teams should split from NCAA and pay players

Title IX will require that females get paid as much as men, so...ain’t gonna happen...


25 posted on 01/12/2016 4:44:30 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: MinorityRepublican

That would end college sports. If they’re employees, they will sue to be allowed employment beyond four years. Unionization and strikes will follow. No one wants to watch that.


59 posted on 01/12/2016 5:48:57 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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