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  •  Screw it (6+ / 0-)

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    Trix, Dump Terry McAuliffe, The Gryffin, esquimaux, howardx, feingoldforVP

    Take the games out of the college setting where they do little except pervert college standards and let the pro leagues fund their developmental league.  Put all resources into scholastics and if you want to play intermural ball well and good.  The last thing that is needed is to give the prima donnas on the teams even more of a seperation from the reality of life.

    "I said, 'wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man'". Robbie Robertson

    by NearlyNormal on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:32:05 PM PDT

    •  It's a "how do you un-ring a bell?" problem (4+ / 0-)

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      Al Rodgers, Trix, mcfly, Hardhat Democrat

      The colleges are being used by the NBA and NFL, but don't want to get out of the entertainment business. I suspect that many big-time college athletic directors would like to roll the clock back to the 1970s, when few players could come out early, but are prevented from doing so on account of those pesky antitrust laws.

      Replete with "misstatements" and elisions and retracted and redacted and revoked assertions.--Carl Bernstein on HRC's record.

      by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:38:24 PM PDT

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      •  aI think it is unringing itself (1+ / 0-)

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        Dump Terry McAuliffe

        somewhat.  More players coming out early lessens the draw for the schools.  But, I really don't see this as a big problem because I have very little sympathy for someone who goes to college so that they can play ball.  Maybe thay get a bad deal, maybe they get fortune beyond belief or reason, the whole thing is a crock.  But I do love to watch it.

        "I said, 'wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man'". Robbie Robertson

        by NearlyNormal on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 05:56:42 PM PDT

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