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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2091730, member: 199"] A really good point to make!!! We complain a lot about the NCAA and what this committee or that committee has done, and while the NCAA offices and their paid staff deserve a lot of the grief that comes their way, we lose sight of the fact that in all sports but especially the non-revenue sports there are a whole lot of people who are devoting their lives to those sports and the STUDENT athletes with very little or no compensation - it is a lifelong commitment from them and it is a labor of love. While women's basketball falls somewhere between revenue sport and non-revenue sport, the same passion and commitment exists with little or no compensation. We should be thankful for their work and effort, even when we think they got something wrong. (The same goes for the refs, by the way - they live an odd lifestyle with very limited compensation, and perform their duties because they love the game. They are far from perfect in their jobs, but there are few jobs that come with the level of abuse they put up with on a game to game basis.) [/QUOTE]