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That's my thought. Making it "legal" for amateurs to make money would make stuff like free tattoos and other insignificant crap like that a non-issue, as well, which I think we can all agree would be a good thing in a general sense.

 

Some boosters would offer NBA-sized salaries to top-shelf recruits for one or two or three or four years of play. Small schools wouldn't be able to keep up.

And Oklahoma State would run shit.

 

This is one option, and the best. The other option is to watch for the enjoyment, realize that for 95 percent of the athletes a free education is a great deal, and just assume the other 5 percent (and probably some others) are being paid under the table and be fine with that.

What isn't possible anymore is to consider the NCAA rules to be worth following and to worry about who's cheating.

 

How do you know they aren't already?

And, so what?

 

And Oregon.

Of course, Oregon and OSU have already sort of started running shit the last few years. Amazing how those formerly nothing athletic departments transformed when they sold themselves to Pickens and Knight. Wish some tycoon would buy my alma mater.

 

The choice not to support it or throw any more cash down its maw is a conscious one to make.

 

It'd lead to the kind of agent/booster/coach abuse that'd make your head spin silly, but if you prefer that to the existence of hypocrisy, OK.

 

There's already commercialism in college sports. Either go all the way with it, or cut back to the pure amateur ideal like in the Ivies and D-III.

And since it's very doubtful any of the coaches, administrators, or any non-athlete will want to give up their huge salaries, then let boosterism run amok.

 

How would it be hypocritical?

The NCAA says that college sports are supposed to be an amateur activity. Yet, there are an awful lot of people making their living off of it. If they want to be truly an amateur activity, then everyone should be purely unpaid volunteers. Coaches, administrators, NCAA officials should be working a FT job outside of sports and volunteering their time for the good of amateurism. And we know, that ain't happening, and it won't happen in the future.

 

So what

 

Shit, I'm an Alabama fanboi. I was not judging.