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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If major networks invested billions of dollars into the broadcast rights of minor league baseball and G-league basketball then people would probably watch.  College Sports will always continue to be popular and important because it's incredibly accessible to the common fan.[/quote]

And a huge tradition. [/quote]

Fair, but what’s happening now is not that tradition. These universities now have minor league professional sports teams attached to them as appendages. And these appendages are increasingly disconnected from the idea of a university as a school of higher learning.

This is not the good old days of all American student athletes going to class and walking around campus in their letter jackets.

I’m probably romanticizing the old days but you get the idea.

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You are romanticizing the old days.  I remember when my Div 1 Uni came out in the 1980s saying it would not go as low as the NCAA was then allowing for SAT scores.  I think it was 800 TOTAL at that time.  I had taken the old SAT as a 7th grader and not known any algebra and gotten a 370 math off a few arithmetic problems.  So basically the requirement was you could read and make change.  Not impressive at all.  And the bowl-winning teams liked to brag about the very ordinary scholarship capabilities of their teams...but they got first choice of the literate players because of their wins, not because of the free education.  Our best football player (Heisman-eligible) left as a junior or so for the NFL after several violent incidents and a crashed loaner luxury car.

Looked up what the SAT are now and there are no rules anymore.  Google AI says:

"The NCAA permanently removed the SAT/ACT score requirement for Division I initial eligibility starting in 2023, so there's no minimum score needed, but student-athletes must still meet core course requirements and have a certain GPA, with universities setting their own higher standards. While older rules had a sliding scale (e.g., a 900 SAT with a 3.55 GPA, or 1000 SAT with a 2.0 GPA), that system is gone, focusing now on your core GPA and high school courses."

The disconnection was there in the 1990s but people keep kidding themselves. [/quote]

Student athletes have been literally illiterate at every big time college program going back decades. Even when there was that bare min. SAT or ACT score required, they would just pay someone $100 to take it for them. Cheating was rampant [/quote]

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