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[QUOTE="tchalla1, post: 4280478, member: 9866"]
Thank you for your commentary---I don't know why some people are so opposed to collegiate athletes using the free enterprise/free market system and being  capitalists in this capitalistic society to their own advantage.  Is the portal ideal for college athletics?--probably not--but neither was the plantation-model previous to the portal and NIL where coaches and universities made tremendous revenue off the backs of athletes and athletes got little or nothing in return....

Selfish reasons? I don't know about you, but I make many business and economic choices for "selfish reasons". See--the first thing we do is shed the skin of the old NCAA mantra that athletes are possession and property of universities and allow them entry into the free market enterprise system of this country where being a capitalist and an  opportunist for venture capital aren't dirty words....

As you point out, the transfer rate according to most statistics do not exceed non-scholarship students. Students get to change their minds and decide what's in their best interest, so should student athletes...
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