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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 4335519, member: 1646"] You may lose a school or two, but I just can't see some of those schools you mentioned giving up their identity as great academic schools that also do sports. Just an opinion. I think Duke, especially, has become Duke partially because of that identity. Those schools may have endowments that would allow them to give the finger to the changes, but they may not want to lose the draw they have to get a kid over an Ivy because of the rah rah atmosphere. It might be easier for Northeastern to join U Chicago or Johns Hopkins, I guess. I agree that the schools won't tarnish their academic reputations, but I have to believe they'll find a way to keep a foot in both camps. To your question about being cut, it may just mean that the school fully separates the athletic from the academic. You owe us $60k per year. Where you get that $60k is up to you. If you get cut from the Duke football team that was paying you $75k per year, you can either find another way to pay us or drop out. That's really not much different than any other student. I'd be more interested in what this means for other purposes that colleges have never had to worry about. Taxes for the schools (are they still non-profit?) and taxes for the athlete student. Antitrust problems now that they'd officially be businesses. [/QUOTE]