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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5297536, member: 12088"] This is not what I would wish for, but it may be inevitable. In fact, the current situation has already twisted college sports into a minor league for various professional sports. What fans currently love about sports like WCBB is the mixture of talent ands striving mixed together with the nostalgic associations of the student experience of college life. This is all illusory, but it's a key element of the product marketed to us by the NCAA. As [USER=8516]@Sifaka[/USER] mentioned above, the no-scholarship model would be a hybrid of what the Ivies already do combined with all the compromises needed to keep booster-based collectives interested in funding the students. Not every school will be able to compete in such a configuration. But I expect plenty will. Fans may be disappointed by the level of competition, if it begins to resemble the Ivies too closely. [/QUOTE]