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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 133033699" data-attributes="member: 1812660"><p>I'm not faulting the players.&nbsp; I'm faulting the farcical system that takes illiterate athletes with far below average academic ability and gives them only one opportunity to play professional football.&nbsp; Which is to get a scholarship to play NCAA ball.&nbsp; There is no G league or minor league.&nbsp; The NFL won't provide a viable alternative nor allow them to come into the league at 18.&nbsp; So we are forced to watch the open lie of academic institutions that turn away paying students for having sub par academic metrics while giving free &quot;education&quot; to athletes with no substantive academic metrics.&nbsp; It used to be athletic scholarships were for young adults who could cut muster at a university, but lacked the ability to pay.&nbsp; Not those so academically inept that, if not for athletic ability, they wouldn’t gain admission even if they could afford to pay double tuition.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 133033699, member: 1812660"] I'm not faulting the players. I'm faulting the farcical system that takes illiterate athletes with far below average academic ability and gives them only one opportunity to play professional football. Which is to get a scholarship to play NCAA ball. There is no G league or minor league. The NFL won't provide a viable alternative nor allow them to come into the league at 18. So we are forced to watch the open lie of academic institutions that turn away paying students for having sub par academic metrics while giving free "education" to athletes with no substantive academic metrics. It used to be athletic scholarships were for young adults who could cut muster at a university, but lacked the ability to pay. Not those so academically inept that, if not for athletic ability, they wouldn’t gain admission even if they could afford to pay double tuition. [/QUOTE]

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