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Message: [QUOTE="The Funster, post: 2530288, member: 831"] I think there are a lot of ramifications to this rule and it can't be seperated from any exploitation of it's student athletes by the NCAA. These are some rough thoughts that I really haven't fully thought through yet: What is a "student-athlete"? The majority of them fall into the category that are grateful to get an education because they know they aren't good enough to play at the pro level. They compete and likely take courses that lead to a meaningful degree. Then there are the student athlete that falls into the minority category that are elite athletes and re very good bets to get offers to play at the pro level. They attend classes, oftentimes classes or degree tracks that don't really lend themselves to building a post college career. These athletes take classes that make it easier for them to be eligible for their sport and as soon as they can, they drop classes to prepare for the draft. So for these players, what is the value of that education? Surew, some graduate or return at some point and graduate but most of them are gone and replaced by the next group of players who are there to hone their athletics skills, not academic skills. I find it hard to believe that the NCAA could come up with a plan that is still restrictive to the student athlete. To say they can only do it once or twice instead of every year is still artificially restrictive, IMO. What is the rationale for that? If they could tell me a reason why not being able to switch each year is in the best interests of the student athlete, I'd love to hear it. Parity was brought up and I think there is a healthy parity in basketball, not so much in football. Whatever parity each sport shas would be further damaged by this rule. Sure, kids will always want to move closer to home, switch because they don't like the coach, etc. but now you could have kids switching because they had a couple of good seasons and draw interest from other schools or will have an opprotunity to switch to school X to have a great chance to get a ring or how many coaches will say to a kid, "Go play for and in two years, I'll bring you in." You know that will happen. I see this as another crossroads for the NCAA and the wrong decision will push then closer to making a decision between true amateurism and semi-professionalism. [/QUOTE]

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