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Message: [QUOTE="VAHuskyFan, post: 2599059, member: 1585"] No, it doesn’t. Coaches get paid big bucks and no one would watch their teams if they were merely the d-league Hartford Thundercats or whatever. Schools want to win and are willing to pay for the coaches, administrators, and facilities to make that happen. Funny how this argument about the value all coming from the school name only ever applies to the athletes themselves. The only question is whether college athletes should get paid. There will be college sports one way or the other.* *The only way paying students wouldn’t work is if fans’ delicate feelings about “amateurism” are so hurt that they refuse to watch their college teams anymore. And if that’s the case - if fans’ enjoyment of college sports requires that an anticompetitive cartel deny teenagers the ability to profit from their talents the way any other American can, then we should just burn the whole thing down. [/QUOTE]