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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 5236958, member: 1414"] Let's see how long it lasts. As long as I can see the players as actual students attending a school I attended, I will gladly cheer for them. If they really just become a professional team that is sponsored by a university then I'm probably going to lose interest. The massive flaw in all the court cases about paying these players is the belief that the players have some intrinsic market value. A handful do. They rest are only valuable because of the name on the jersey and the fans attached to that name. Here we are in portal season, ready to cheer on somebody we would have rooted against last year. Almost all of the value of college football and basketball comes from the affinity fans have for their school. If these players, in any sport, were just in the minors, like we see in baseball, nobody would watch them on TV. OT Elite pretty much shows that. [/QUOTE]