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<blockquote data-quote="jojatk" data-source="post: 678491" data-attributes="member: 2627"><p>First of all much respect to your Dad!!! I wish there were more people like him around these days!!! Personal responsibility should be a timeless concept.</p><p></p><p>Let me pose a scenario and I promise this is sincere and I'm not going to jump on whatever you say: What if your Dad had had the opportunity to both support his family AND stay in school? Assume for the sake of this discussion that he could have earned enough while still in school to provide adequate support... Of course he didn't have that option back then but I'm sure it would have been nice to have had that choice whether he exercised it or not.</p><p></p><p>What I'm honestly wondering (which means I don't have an answer) at this point is whether it's possible to provide that type of option to the student-athletes because what they do is bringing in so much money to the industry. I don't have the answer to that question in my own mind. There are so many other points to consider and I absolutely recognize it's not that simple. There are so many things to consider not the least of which is how would you police it and would there be a difference between what an athlete could get at Alabama which makes TONS of money vs GT which doesn't and how do you reconcile that some sports make money and others don't... And let me also make it clear that what happened to Bryce is NOT the NCAA's fault and I'm in no way, shape, or form putting ANY of the blame there. I think that smarter people than me should be able to figure it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jojatk, post: 678491, member: 2627"] First of all much respect to your Dad!!! I wish there were more people like him around these days!!! Personal responsibility should be a timeless concept. Let me pose a scenario and I promise this is sincere and I'm not going to jump on whatever you say: What if your Dad had had the opportunity to both support his family AND stay in school? Assume for the sake of this discussion that he could have earned enough while still in school to provide adequate support... Of course he didn't have that option back then but I'm sure it would have been nice to have had that choice whether he exercised it or not. What I'm honestly wondering (which means I don't have an answer) at this point is whether it's possible to provide that type of option to the student-athletes because what they do is bringing in so much money to the industry. I don't have the answer to that question in my own mind. There are so many other points to consider and I absolutely recognize it's not that simple. There are so many things to consider not the least of which is how would you police it and would there be a difference between what an athlete could get at Alabama which makes TONS of money vs GT which doesn't and how do you reconcile that some sports make money and others don't... And let me also make it clear that what happened to Bryce is NOT the NCAA's fault and I'm in no way, shape, or form putting ANY of the blame there. I think that smarter people than me should be able to figure it out. [/QUOTE]
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