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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 31197" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>In my job, I meet European students. The one thing that absolutely flabbergasts all of them is American major college sports. They can understand Div 3; that's sorta like what they have back home. What throws them is the way the bigs are operating a semi-professional farm system for professional sports in this country. "Why don't the players who want to go pro play on local teams? Why do they need a college education? They're wasting valuable time! They can always go to university later!" Well, there's no answer for that except that that's the way it worked out over here. At that point, they begin to shake their heads and mutter.</p><p></p><p>Can't say I blame them. Organized sports are way, way too overemphasized in this country at all levels of education. This is not inevitable. You can have a country full of sports nuts without it; look at the RSA. But, if you make a big deal out of college sports and you make big money out of it, then sooner or later you can expect the players to want their cut, beyond the payments in kind they already get. If it doesn't happen now, it'll happen sometime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 31197, member: 265"] In my job, I meet European students. The one thing that absolutely flabbergasts all of them is American major college sports. They can understand Div 3; that's sorta like what they have back home. What throws them is the way the bigs are operating a semi-professional farm system for professional sports in this country. "Why don't the players who want to go pro play on local teams? Why do they need a college education? They're wasting valuable time! They can always go to university later!" Well, there's no answer for that except that that's the way it worked out over here. At that point, they begin to shake their heads and mutter. Can't say I blame them. Organized sports are way, way too overemphasized in this country at all levels of education. This is not inevitable. You can have a country full of sports nuts without it; look at the RSA. But, if you make a big deal out of college sports and you make big money out of it, then sooner or later you can expect the players to want their cut, beyond the payments in kind they already get. If it doesn't happen now, it'll happen sometime. [/QUOTE]
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