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[quote=Anonymous]Where do you stand on paying college football and basketball players?  (Or any other sport with market demand?)

Personally, I’m against it and I actually wish the NCAA would force schools to reduce practice hours so that student-athletes would have enough time to go to class and get their schoolwork done.  If the quality of play on the field or court diminishes a little bit, who cares?  Fans don’t show up because they want to see football/basketball played at the highest level.  (They have the NFL/NBA for that.)  They show up because they have something in common with the players: They lived in the same dorms and went to classes in the same buildings etc.

I think paid student-athletes will quickly lose *any* connection to the school.  They won’t ever go to class or graduate and “college” football/basketball will inevitably become another professional league in direct competition with the NFL and NBA.  Fans will eventually realize that they’re rooting for the Georgia Bulldogs or the Alabama Crimson Tide for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever.  The players will *only* set foot on campus to play in the games and that’s it.  They will have no other connection to the school at all.[/quote]

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