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Message: [QUOTE="Zonepress, post: 5237789, member: 10855"] Interesting take Re interest level you may be correct My interest in Cbb in limited to Uconn and I suspect the last 30 years excellent teams has a lot to do with ii Re the court cases all the court said was that The players could not be prevented from earning Money off their name image and likeness It it did not require the universities to pay the players justice Kavanaugh intimated that Making the players employees might make sense You say the players value comes from the affinity with the school To me it comes from their talent If UConn had no scholarships and the team Was the “normal” college students would The games be sell outs be on tv!? Big time college fb and bb is in the situation there in because they were beyond greedy The TV money, exorbitant ticket prices expanding schedules, put them awash in money To hide the profits They paid the coaches millions of dollars in salaries Built more and more facilities Paid assistant coaches, crazy money Expanded the athletic departments to preposterous levels Join conferences with doubles and triples the travel Budget They put all the non-revenue sports into the athletic budget, which was not supported by the school so that they could show the athletic department was really not making any money Meanwhile, they were all getting fat and happy And while the players were getting paid(athletic scholarship to me is payment) it was a small percentage of their value Time will tell if the “pro model “ of college sports will work My take is that it will and while older folks (I’m one of them) may lose interest The younger generation will know the system as it is and continue to support it. Somehow, I find it impossible to think no matter what the model is, that Alabama football will not continue to be popular [/QUOTE]

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