roadkill
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Most fans, and I’m including myself, have been living in a fantasyland that held that amateurism was an inviolate principle underpinning college sports. When in fact, that principle has been illegal for almost 100 years! I’m surprised that a case like Alston didn’t come up decades ago. Amateurism was a facade attempting to create parity across programs when all along it failed to do so.
Some degree of parity, or a least parity of opportunity, is good for the sport, and I hope that there is a way to achieve that in the near future. But ethically and morally, I would not want the sport to go back to a system that was clearly illegal.
Some degree of parity, or a least parity of opportunity, is good for the sport, and I hope that there is a way to achieve that in the near future. But ethically and morally, I would not want the sport to go back to a system that was clearly illegal.