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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it’s cool for the mostly white male coaches to get millions and the schools to get hundreds of millions, but the athletes, many of whom are POC and/or poor shouldn’t get any of the revenue they create because it might make their connection to the school more … tenuous?

I see you.[/quote]

People don’t watch college football and basketball to see the athletes or to see the game played at the highest level.  They watch because the players represent the school and the community.  They live on campus, they attend classes on campus, they share the campus experience.  The fans love the campus, not the players.  When that is lost—and it will be once student-athletes are paid—“college” sports will become just another professional sports league in direct competition with the NFL and NBA.[/quote]

You are insane[/quote]

The BCS Championship this year featured the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama.  Approximately 23 million people watched it on tv.  If, say, the game was played with [i]the exact same players[/i] but the teams were called the “Athens Bears” and the “Tuscaloosa Tigers”—and they were part of a professional second-tier football league like the XFL—think 23 million people would have tuned in?  No way in hell.  No professional football league besides the NFL has survived long-term.  There is *no market* for football played at the second-highest level.  That’s obvious.  So why are so many people watching the BCS Championship?  The schools.  If the QBs for Georgia and Alabama could only throw the ball 10 yards, the game would still get super-high ratings.  The fans care about the schools, the traditions, the states, the rivalries.  They don’t care about the players.[/quote]

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