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<blockquote data-quote="BonafideJacket" data-source="post: 639199" data-attributes="member: 1011"><p>Just like college football players can take a few years off, earn money however they please (including playing football), and tryout for the NFL. It's called capitalism.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Dude, I don't know what else to tell you. The freedom to contract and the sanctity of abiding by the terms you agreed to? I could go into the basis for the existence of amateur athletics (employment law, workman comp concerns, non-profit status of universities, etc.) but we've already taken this thing way off course. Long and short of it is that society decided that was in everyone's best interest for college students to remain amateur athletes and set up a system whereby everyone was satisfied enough to participate. The winds of change are blowing in a different direction now and society may decide on a different set of rules. That's totally fine and personally I agree with where we are headed (although maybe not how we get there). None of that necessarily means that the original system was illegitimate or discriminatory or any other negative connotation that keeps getting tossed around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BonafideJacket, post: 639199, member: 1011"] Just like college football players can take a few years off, earn money however they please (including playing football), and tryout for the NFL. It's called capitalism. Dude, I don't know what else to tell you. The freedom to contract and the sanctity of abiding by the terms you agreed to? I could go into the basis for the existence of amateur athletics (employment law, workman comp concerns, non-profit status of universities, etc.) but we've already taken this thing way off course. Long and short of it is that society decided that was in everyone's best interest for college students to remain amateur athletes and set up a system whereby everyone was satisfied enough to participate. The winds of change are blowing in a different direction now and society may decide on a different set of rules. That's totally fine and personally I agree with where we are headed (although maybe not how we get there). None of that necessarily means that the original system was illegitimate or discriminatory or any other negative connotation that keeps getting tossed around. [/QUOTE]
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