wakephan09
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The thing most people seem to forget, or disregard, is that these proposed policies only consider *scholarship* athletes in basketball and football. Overall, they constitute a tiny parentage of the NCAA student-athlete population.
If you pay only this top tier of athlete, or blow up the system entirely, Brasky-style, you're actually hurting the vast majority of student-athletes, many of whom benefit enormously from the opportunity to use their athletic talents to get admitted to better schools, to develop as students and athletes in elite academic and athletic environments (relative to the rest of the world), and to keep open the possibility that they might make it as professionals. When it comes down to it, you'd be privileging only the very people that already have the best shot at becoming multimillionaires.
Simple solution, already mentioned by several posters: let athletes go pro whenever they like. And acknowledge that the ones who aren't yet good enough to do so out of high school use the NCAA to develop and advertise their talents (and ostensibly have the opportunity to learn something and earn a valuable degree along the way).
If you pay only this top tier of athlete, or blow up the system entirely, Brasky-style, you're actually hurting the vast majority of student-athletes, many of whom benefit enormously from the opportunity to use their athletic talents to get admitted to better schools, to develop as students and athletes in elite academic and athletic environments (relative to the rest of the world), and to keep open the possibility that they might make it as professionals. When it comes down to it, you'd be privileging only the very people that already have the best shot at becoming multimillionaires.
Simple solution, already mentioned by several posters: let athletes go pro whenever they like. And acknowledge that the ones who aren't yet good enough to do so out of high school use the NCAA to develop and advertise their talents (and ostensibly have the opportunity to learn something and earn a valuable degree along the way).