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<blockquote data-quote="Roundball Sage" data-source="post: 1951834" data-attributes="member: 748116"><p>College Sports has already served as a quasi-minor league or a farm team to the Pros for many generations. The Employee Athlete structure just makes it all above-board and official without the silly and disingenuous acting of programs like it isn't so.</p><p></p><p>Power League schools can evolve into the full-blown Farm Team model. Non-Power schools and lower College divisions can continue their sports programs as a lower and more true student-athlete level... with the much greater emphasis on Student and the much lesser emphasis on Athlete. They don't even have to try to compete with the Power Big boys to have a basic level sports program of other schools in the same boat.</p><p></p><p>Fans are also somewhat reponsible for this trend. Lots of people tune in to see the Big Ten and SEC and Notre Dame... and just yawn when someone else is on the tele. Not the true football or sports fans... but much of the general public. So fans in that regard are also feeding the Beast.</p><p></p><p>For me, I'm frankly sick of watching certain programs all the time. I find it enjoyable and refreshing to watch the Wyomings and the Fresnos and U of Texas at San Antonios and the like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roundball Sage, post: 1951834, member: 748116"] College Sports has already served as a quasi-minor league or a farm team to the Pros for many generations. The Employee Athlete structure just makes it all above-board and official without the silly and disingenuous acting of programs like it isn't so. Power League schools can evolve into the full-blown Farm Team model. Non-Power schools and lower College divisions can continue their sports programs as a lower and more true student-athlete level... with the much greater emphasis on Student and the much lesser emphasis on Athlete. They don't even have to try to compete with the Power Big boys to have a basic level sports program of other schools in the same boat. Fans are also somewhat reponsible for this trend. Lots of people tune in to see the Big Ten and SEC and Notre Dame... and just yawn when someone else is on the tele. Not the true football or sports fans... but much of the general public. So fans in that regard are also feeding the Beast. For me, I'm frankly sick of watching certain programs all the time. I find it enjoyable and refreshing to watch the Wyomings and the Fresnos and U of Texas at San Antonios and the like. [/QUOTE]
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