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<blockquote data-quote="Illiini" data-source="post: 1392279" data-attributes="member: 625513"><p>Why not just do away with the "student-athlete" fig leaf anyway? Let the kids be pros, and if the pro teams want a farm team, the university can give the team naming rights. The players wouldn't be students at all. No one would have to worry about classes. They could just play basketball. </p><p></p><p>People cheer for their hometown teams in pro sports. Chicago area people cheer for the Cubs, St. Louis for the Cardinals, yet these players have no more attachment to the city than (in many cases) local tax dollars buy that ball park that the games are played in. </p><p></p><p>Why wouldn't this model work for "college" sports? Bingo-bango, all your problems are solved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Illiini, post: 1392279, member: 625513"] Why not just do away with the "student-athlete" fig leaf anyway? Let the kids be pros, and if the pro teams want a farm team, the university can give the team naming rights. The players wouldn't be students at all. No one would have to worry about classes. They could just play basketball. People cheer for their hometown teams in pro sports. Chicago area people cheer for the Cubs, St. Louis for the Cardinals, yet these players have no more attachment to the city than (in many cases) local tax dollars buy that ball park that the games are played in. Why wouldn't this model work for "college" sports? Bingo-bango, all your problems are solved. [/QUOTE]
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