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[quote=Anonymous]There is a recent article that addresses this:

The truth is the whole system is corrosive and rests on a highly profitable myth: that of the student-athlete. Not every student-athlete is a fraud, of course, even in the high-revenue sports of men’s football and basketball. But more than a few college athletes aren’t really students. In 2015, when he was coaching Notre Dame, Mr. Kelly said he doubted that any of his players could meet the university’s academic standards. And Notre Dame has long been one of the better athletic programs for academic performance.

The crisis of college athletics today is that too many of the athletes are simply hired hands. And with the transfer portal, an athlete can spend his years as a “student” playing for a different college each year.

Ironically, the situation now is a bastard version of one reform favored by free market types: paying athletes without any pretense that they are real students. Today we have something close to that but more hypocritical. When players can transfer from university to university with education an afterthought, college sports effectively become a professional system.[/quote]

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