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Message: [QUOTE="The Funster, post: 3311226, member: 831"] College sports is going to change. Imagine sports that aren't bigtime. Some guy decides he wants to surround his kid with the best lacrosse players he could buy. He lets the word get out, a dozen kids take him up on his offer, make a few local appearances and boom, NCAA champs. Any attempt to control this kind of behavior will get shot down. There is no way to stop it. Big time sports will stratify. Those schools with the richest boosters will pull away from the others and yeah, you'll have the much expected NCAA breakaway. Even then, why cant some rich person wake up one morning and say, "Damn, why can't my alma mater, Faber College, win a National Championship too!" It will be chaos. The NCAA could have collectively bargained some kind of trust for their constituent athletes. They eschewed that option and now the genie has been let loose. They can't the plug back into that bottle. [/QUOTE]