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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 1008882, member: 55"] O.K. -- just at the most superficial level pointing out why some are choking at your posts here: 1. You said "and the general public's own bias." Where in the determination of an athletic champion -- much less the rights of student athletes in mostly government institutions -- should the public's bias have any factor whatsoever? Do you really think MLB is going to forego the playoffs and just let the Yankees and Red Sox play in the World Series because that would generate the most interest? 2. You make statements about conferences being better as if that should be relevant. We are dealing with governmental entities? Why don't they have rights based on performance, where, for example, UConn's would be superior to say Vanderbilt's? Why do you -- why should anyone -- accept the starting point that any benefits from a governmental system should be distributed based on whom you associate, rather than individual characteristics of individual schools Enough. There is no real theoretical justification for any of this. This is about ADs trying to grab money, not for the benefit of shareholders (which is the justification for self serving actions in the private sector) but so they can get bigger salaries and Presidents trying to improve their school's prestige to help their resume and ego. It deserves no more discussion than that. [/QUOTE]