HailToPurple said:

I never said that or anything even close to it.

You seem to be very confused over my position on the matter. So here it is one more time:

To pay a college student, some as young as 18 years old, millions of dollars for having achieved nothing other than being very good at playing football, is morally wrong. It cheapens the value of the university system and upper education in general.

It is being done largely because college football brings in huge amounts of money and the people in charge need someplace to put the money. But that doesn't justify giving it to the student athletes. That money rightfully belongs to the university and is entirely fungible. It can be put to use in many different ways where it will serve a very good purpose for other students and causes.

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pschatz25 said:

Agree about skipping Hinkle. I wonder if this game will be part of a bigger event, like in Milwaukee last year.

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HailToPurple said:

I never said that or anything even close to it.

You seem to be very confused over my position on the matter. So here it is one more time:

To pay a college student, some as young as 18 years old, millions of dollars for having achieved nothing other than being very good at playing football, is morally wrong. It cheapens the value of the university system and upper education in general.

It is being done largely because college football brings in huge amounts of money and the people in charge need someplace to put the money. But that doesn't justify giving it to the student athletes. That money rightfully belongs to the university and is entirely fungible. It can be put to use in many different ways where it will serve a very good purpose for other students and causes.

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CappyNU said:

So then I can only presume that it must be morally wrong for coaches to make their millions of dollars, and morally wrong for fans to pay money to attend sporting events, and morally wrong for university athletic departments to accept tens of millions of dollars from TV networks, and morally wrong for universities to build new buildings dedicated to athletic pursuits as well?

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JournCat said:

This is exciting. Collins thinks we have NCAA potential too. My only critique is skipping Hinkle!

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HailToPurple said:

they are not business at all.

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