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<blockquote data-quote="MidtownJacket" data-source="post: 949739" data-attributes="member: 959"><p>I think what I mainly struggle with on the NIL topic (across all sports by the way) is the rapidly increasing explicit acceptance of the implicit practice that the experience of student athletes is becoming completely divorced from the academic/cultural/community sense of the schools they play for.</p><p></p><p>Kids are just picking to follow the money (which is fine in a professional sports path) but it is eroding the identity of college athletics. Over the last 30 or 40 years, it has become expected for top athletes to "play" at going to class to retain eligibility only long enough to bounce. Why do we enable that further? Why not push the cost and responsibility of a farm system developing the next wave of future NBA/NFL guys back onto the professional leagues which REALLY make the money?</p><p></p><p>I despise the notion of competing in an endeavor that is, by default, imbalanced. Salary caps / drafts / free agency rules / franchise tags / collective bargaining rights are all partially responsible for keeping the professional sports teams "competitive" against each other. I don't think it is good for the health of the game to further devalue the education part of why the NCAA was supposed to exist in the first place.</p><p></p><p>To me it has been a total institutional failure by the NCAA and I want my orange bowl trophy back dagnabit. Haha</p><p></p><p>Exits soap box.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MidtownJacket, post: 949739, member: 959"] I think what I mainly struggle with on the NIL topic (across all sports by the way) is the rapidly increasing explicit acceptance of the implicit practice that the experience of student athletes is becoming completely divorced from the academic/cultural/community sense of the schools they play for. Kids are just picking to follow the money (which is fine in a professional sports path) but it is eroding the identity of college athletics. Over the last 30 or 40 years, it has become expected for top athletes to "play" at going to class to retain eligibility only long enough to bounce. Why do we enable that further? Why not push the cost and responsibility of a farm system developing the next wave of future NBA/NFL guys back onto the professional leagues which REALLY make the money? I despise the notion of competing in an endeavor that is, by default, imbalanced. Salary caps / drafts / free agency rules / franchise tags / collective bargaining rights are all partially responsible for keeping the professional sports teams "competitive" against each other. I don't think it is good for the health of the game to further devalue the education part of why the NCAA was supposed to exist in the first place. To me it has been a total institutional failure by the NCAA and I want my orange bowl trophy back dagnabit. Haha Exits soap box. [/QUOTE]
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