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ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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The other issue is that then you'd have schools blowing millions of dollars on their sports programs while cutting funding from the things that a college is actually supposed to loving do like, you know, teaching students. Every time you spend $100,000 to grab a star athlete that's a professor's job gone. College sports are supposed to be a neat thing on the side that you do in school and not the focus of why you're there.

Which is kind of an inherent problem of the American school system in general; rear end loads of money are spent on college sports and are the focus for some peoples' time there. American colleges are also becoming increasingly expensive while spending more money on non-teaching things like sports, administration, and fancy buildings. Remember that this is also teenagers you're dealing with, who aren't exactly known for their good judgement. "Hey, this school will give me a free ride, a car, and $50,000 to sign up and play football!!!! Awesome!" without looking into the details.

What if the school expects you to make college sports a full time job? Good luck finding time to study properly. Is that full ride worth it? Does it come with restrictions? Does it only pay for a certain number of years? Is that school even reputable? Who hires people from that school? What will your degree be worth? Without restrictions you'd be basically guaranteed to start getting private schools with deep pockets profiting off of college sports while handing out worthless degrees.

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ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pretty sure you can also get around stuff like that but making it no athlete specific.

Well hey we know juice is good for you so over at the rec center there is this little room with free juice that most students never hear about but the athletes are all told about. I mean hey we don't turn other students away we just don't advertise it, you know what I mean?

Compliance departments are part "how do we not break rules?" And part "how much can we get away with and how do we do it?"

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