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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 941507" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>IF college athletics were normal college students competing against normal college students from other schools, then it wouldn't make any difference whether a player transferred or not. Club sports is exactly that. If you transfer from GT to FSU, you could immediately join the rugby team and potentially play against the guys you used to play with at GT. Restricting transfers is treating the student-athletes as if they are employees that can be controlled. That goes completely idea that the athletes are not employees. The point I am making is that NCAA athletics DO NOT treat athletes as if they were actual college students doing actual college student things. That makes the NCAA's arguments about being an amateur organization seem disingenuous at best.</p><p></p><p>Requiring the athletes to be enrolled in school promotes amateurism. Requiring the athletes to make progress towards a degree promotes amateurism. Requiring an athlete to sit out a year if they change schools does not promote amateurism, the only effect is to protect the athletic coaches and associations. The NCAA should have been acting purely as an amateur organization 50 years ago. They have been acting as a professional organization with non-paid employees and it finally came to head. Even after court decisions and legislation, they have buried their heads in the sand and haven't really done anything. They should organize as regular students competing against regular students from other schools, or they should organize as professional athletes competing against professional athletes from other schools. For far too long, they have been trying to get the advantages of both while accepting the disadvantages of neither.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 941507, member: 2426"] IF college athletics were normal college students competing against normal college students from other schools, then it wouldn't make any difference whether a player transferred or not. Club sports is exactly that. If you transfer from GT to FSU, you could immediately join the rugby team and potentially play against the guys you used to play with at GT. Restricting transfers is treating the student-athletes as if they are employees that can be controlled. That goes completely idea that the athletes are not employees. The point I am making is that NCAA athletics DO NOT treat athletes as if they were actual college students doing actual college student things. That makes the NCAA's arguments about being an amateur organization seem disingenuous at best. Requiring the athletes to be enrolled in school promotes amateurism. Requiring the athletes to make progress towards a degree promotes amateurism. Requiring an athlete to sit out a year if they change schools does not promote amateurism, the only effect is to protect the athletic coaches and associations. The NCAA should have been acting purely as an amateur organization 50 years ago. They have been acting as a professional organization with non-paid employees and it finally came to head. Even after court decisions and legislation, they have buried their heads in the sand and haven't really done anything. They should organize as regular students competing against regular students from other schools, or they should organize as professional athletes competing against professional athletes from other schools. For far too long, they have been trying to get the advantages of both while accepting the disadvantages of neither. [/QUOTE]
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