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Message: [QUOTE="Ozimoto, post: 4063773, member: 6677"] I guess one of my English professors at WVU in the 1980's was prescient. He saw this trend of compensation for players of some form or other coming as college athletics was fully engaged in it's transition to a "business" with the growth of televised sports broadcasting as an income source. We had quite the discussion about it in one of our class sections. He felt that universities should hire "professional" teams for the revenue producing sports and refer to them as a "team in residence" since the student athletes involved in those sports were going to be prioritizing sports over academics anyway. Sure beat discussing Thomas Hardy's novel "Jude the Obscure." [/QUOTE]