re: Transfer portal has ruined college sports!!!

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What we have is apples and oranges. Coaches are professionals in their field and have gone to school to earn the right to persue their profession

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True

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Athletes are students that are still learning their professional futures and receive benefits (scholarships, room and board, publicity, tutoring etc.).

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So they aren’t professionals, but they are vehicles used by the universities to make money and they have been compensated to a certain extent for decades.

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They are not professionals and that is where the lines get crossed.

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The line has never been impenetrable. At one time players got an allowance. They have received room and board. Of course elaborate under the tables systems paid players. Market forces couldn’t be completely eliminated.

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Are you going to pay a medical student as a doctor before he or she finishes school?

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Don’t universities have better scholarships than others? Don’t they try to entice the best prospects?

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This is the beginning of the end of college sports as we knew it. No loyalty, just a chase for the almighty dollar and they won’t be getting any of mine.

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The end? No, but yes huge changes. Got the better? I don’t think so, but it isn’t because of the players. It’s because of the money.

Schools deciding to play big games off campus for a big check. Schools teeing it off at 11:00 am. Schools dropping their rivals, schools changing conferences, schools going all in for the big pay check. That’s what is wrecking the game.