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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4378900, member: 12088"] Everything about the prior situation was murky, incoherent and absurd. The privilege given to amateurism has the most dubious provenance. The later developing concern about point-shaving and other anti-competitive elements made a little more sense, but was never a cogent view of college athletics. The primary anti-competitive element is the perverse demand for the illusion of amateurism itself. Get rid of that in order to preserve competitiveness. And if anyone thinks scholarship students shouldn't have any other income out of fairness or any other similar twaddle, they should ask why students outside the athletic department's purview face no such restriction. [/QUOTE]