Differentiating, though, in a way that's detrimental to

playing professional football, which is what the SEC/B1G would be doing by eliminating the student requirement. We have a hard enough time by having serious student standards now. If the other major programs formally eliminate the student requirement altogether, that gap will only widen.

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why exactly would they eliminate the student requirement? - jt 2023-03-26 21:21:50
- It's pretty tenuous as it is - ravenium 2023-03-27 13:34:25
  - there is a very simple reason to keep the academic - jt 2023-03-27 13:46:08
    - jt, you keep mixing apples and oranges w/r/t the "courts - VaDblDmr 2023-03-27 14:29:08
      - what happens to title 9 when/if there are no scholarships? - jt 2023-03-27 15:51:35
        I don't give a damn about the NCAA or Swarbrick. I'm high- - VaDblDmr 2023-03-27 18:55:18
        There are complex variables at play - jt 2023-03-27 19:58:39
        There seems to be an assumption there that girls don't care - VaDblDmr 2023-03-27 21:33:12
        Oh, I don't think that's accurate in the slightest - jt 2023-03-27 22:15:17
        The solution to specious arguments shouldn't be more - ravenium 2023-03-29 13:38:57
        Oh sure, they want to be paid - jt 2023-03-29 23:05:08
    - I might be advocating exactly what he fears - ravenium 2023-03-27 14:25:30
      - I tend to agree with you. Why not have both? - smithwick 2023-03-27 14:39:27
        I wonder if the Bettis model might be a good one - ravenium 2023-03-28 12:49:50
  - help me understand the students and olympic sport athletes - MrE 2023-03-27 13:39:29
    - ND probably isn't the right example to think of when - VaDblDmr 2023-03-27 19:08:22
      - It'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out. - MrE 2023-03-27 20:29:50
    - I mean, what kind of person walks around jealous - jt 2023-03-27 15:49:04
      - there will be locker room strife. - MrE 2023-03-27 17:19:50
        Or spread it among the student body. - doolinbanjos 2023-03-28 12:24:22
        Would prefer to end the exploitation of the football players - MrE 2023-03-28 17:16:05
        It's been said here before. - doolinbanjos 2023-03-28 18:00:05
        Major CFB is a pro league/$6B industry. - MrE 2023-03-28 18:29:03
- Stifle. I was following the subthread in which I understood - VaDblDmr 2023-03-26 22:58:10
I don't think the gap will widen. I think the opposite. - MrE 2023-03-26 20:31:02