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Message: [QUOTE="ed4ourgirls, post: 2014388, member: 469"] Geno is a showbiz star. For at least as long as I have been alive, showbiz stars have been compensated at a very high level. Perhaps the larger issue is the degree to which the nation's institutions of higher learning have become almost inexorably a part of the entertainment industry. I say almost because at least one school, the University of Chicago, perhaps sensing the possible corrupting influence of big time college athletics, abolished it's football program in 1939 and left the Big Ten for other athletics in 1946. Can you imagine a college president having the stones to do that today? Like perhaps some others on this board, I am concerned about this while, at the same time, acknowleging that I am part of the problem. Specifically, I am an enthusiastic consumer of college sports entertainment, especially football and women's basketball. Perhaps the system will evolve in the future, but at the moment, it is what it is. [/QUOTE]