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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3270553, member: 153"] No you're not. There are other leagues. And the NBA is changing next year. As for football, there is hardly any market for a scrawny 18 year old playing semi-pro. The NFL certainly doesn't want them. But I suppose they could go to Canada. At the end of the day, college football players are training to become pros. They have the best trainers, the best facilities, food, etc. It is the best way for them to get to the NFL, and it's also a cost heavy process. The real problem here has always been coaching salaries. Outside of that, you can't even say these schools are profiting off of football because they are not. But the coaching salaries are so out of whack that it's caused all this commotion. If you somehow recalibrated coach's pay, this issue would die quickly, because any analysis of the money/budgets shows that the schools are not getting rich. [/QUOTE]