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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 5186327, member: 153"] Ah, gotcha. I certainly agree with you that when pundits, lawyers, presidents and even judges talk about fairness and student athletes being paid they never ever ever look at an actual university budget to see what is going on. If they did, they'd realize that regular students are subsidizing the vast majority of these depts (not all, there are a handful that have broken free) with much more than student fees. As Im the father of a senior applying to college right now, I've seen that they are factoring in a bunch of costs to total cost of higher ed. that my child would pay regardless if she were a student or not. $4k over the money the school is going to take in. Yes, my daughter will have a cell phone whether or not she is in college. Yes, my daughter will pay commuter costs whether she's in college or on the way to a job. These "costs" are only there because the schools needed to inflate actual costs in order to pay athletes. So brainless. As for the last part, I've been saying for a while that the teams could keep their fanbase in much of the country (outside the west coast and northeast) by licensing the university's brand name for their professional enterprise. So they would be the UConn Huskies pro basketball or semi-pro basketball team. [/QUOTE]