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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 950380" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>Oh trust me, I know. Been through it all myself, and still somewhat involved with the process.</p><p></p><p>When I was coming up, “academic money” was a very high selling point for a lot of schools. Even if 2 schools were offering the same amount of a scholarship, the costs of attending could still vary widely based on how much money you could get via academic scholarships at a particular school. This meant that the actual school itself played a pretty major factor in where a player decided to spend their eligibility. In college sports today, the schools are barely relevant. They’re just an entity that the sports’ programs use as an identifying factor. There is now no such thing as a “student-athlete” at most places. Now that has been the case with football and basketball for a while now, but baseball was different in that aspect.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The schools have been made largely irrelevant because what does a couple thousand dollars in tuition money matter when you’re going to get paid $500k+? Why does it even matter where you get a degree from when you can walk out of school damn near a millionaire? Once again, I’m not blaming the players for taking their hard earned opportunities to make potentially life altering money. I <em>wish</em> I had that chance when I was coming through. I’m just saying that what’s currently going on is not in the spirit of intercollegiate athletics. They’re setting up professional sports under the guise of amateurism without any of the regulations that actual professional sports have. It’s really bad for the future of college sports, and it’s taking away a lot of the novelty and connection that college sports fans had, especially at the smaller programs who are getting raided by the bigger ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 950380, member: 4572"] Oh trust me, I know. Been through it all myself, and still somewhat involved with the process. When I was coming up, “academic money” was a very high selling point for a lot of schools. Even if 2 schools were offering the same amount of a scholarship, the costs of attending could still vary widely based on how much money you could get via academic scholarships at a particular school. This meant that the actual school itself played a pretty major factor in where a player decided to spend their eligibility. In college sports today, the schools are barely relevant. They’re just an entity that the sports’ programs use as an identifying factor. There is now no such thing as a “student-athlete” at most places. Now that has been the case with football and basketball for a while now, but baseball was different in that aspect. The schools have been made largely irrelevant because what does a couple thousand dollars in tuition money matter when you’re going to get paid $500k+? Why does it even matter where you get a degree from when you can walk out of school damn near a millionaire? Once again, I’m not blaming the players for taking their hard earned opportunities to make potentially life altering money. I [I]wish[/I] I had that chance when I was coming through. I’m just saying that what’s currently going on is not in the spirit of intercollegiate athletics. They’re setting up professional sports under the guise of amateurism without any of the regulations that actual professional sports have. It’s really bad for the future of college sports, and it’s taking away a lot of the novelty and connection that college sports fans had, especially at the smaller programs who are getting raided by the bigger ones. [/QUOTE]
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