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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 2588523, member: 7492"] Jordy- what do you call the free education these students get? A hardship??? Don't start with the freakin pay crap. As a former D1 athlete who put in significantly more time in training and travel than the pampered basketball players, I find it highly offensive they should be paid. They already have more coaches, more counselors, access to more tutors, take only 12 credits during the season, are granted summer classes which are easier than fall/spring classes so as to make their "education burden" less during the season. They usually get better meal plans, better housing, access to "athlete only facilities" and are treated like royalty. In any company you have divisions or groups whose profits are greater than other groups but all groups must share the stock prices rise and fall. Similar to the Athletic Departments of the universities, all sports are needed to keep Basketball and Football eligible for the revenue from the playoffs. Ok, rant over. Addendum-Baylor uggghhh, I am so disgusted that NOTHING will happen there it is unsettling and a Baptist school to boot...I really don't like lumping all the other cases as that follows the "but so and so's parents let Johnny do it" thinking. I am hopeful a new era of accountability is starting and doing what is right. I am naive on this but I can dream... [/QUOTE]