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<blockquote data-quote="spartansstink" data-source="post: 132013620" data-attributes="member: 1488840">We're only getting what the majority of the people were clamoring for. &quot;Pay the players! Pay the players!&quot;It was never enough they were getting a free ride to an institution of higher learning. It was never enough they were getting the best in nutrition, health care, and student support services - for free. All things the average student doesn't get. It was always more, more, more.Well, now we're seeing the results of unintended consequences. Let the morons who railed from the rooftops about this gnash their teeth and proclaim how unfair it is now.Personally, I'm all for it. I want to see it ALL come crashing down. The sooner the better. I want to see carnage and weeping and gnashing of teeth. Come quickly while I sit back and laugh.Maybe then, we'll get back to what it was all about in the first place. I want to see a WVU team made up of kids from Brooke to Bluefield, Wheeling to James Monroe playing a VT team made up of kids from Blacksburg, Harrisonburg, Bristol and Roanoke. All for the love of the game. TRUE student athletes playing other true student athletes. No athletic scholarships - only academic ones or none at all, even. Playing teams we fans could all travel to on a balmy, fall day.The rest of &quot;elite college sports&quot; can then turn into the NBA and NFL - things I ignore and have no intention of ever watching. Sorry ESPN, sorry Fox, sorry CBS, can't watch your &quot;must see&quot; game between Alabama and Texas because I'll be in Morgantown watching people worth caring about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spartansstink, post: 132013620, member: 1488840"] We're only getting what the majority of the people were clamoring for. "Pay the players! Pay the players!" It was never enough they were getting a free ride to an institution of higher learning. It was never enough they were getting the best in nutrition, health care, and student support services - for free. All things the average student doesn't get. It was always more, more, more. Well, now we're seeing the results of unintended consequences. Let the morons who railed from the rooftops about this gnash their teeth and proclaim how unfair it is now. Personally, I'm all for it. I want to see it ALL come crashing down. The sooner the better. I want to see carnage and weeping and gnashing of teeth. Come quickly while I sit back and laugh. Maybe then, we'll get back to what it was all about in the first place. I want to see a WVU team made up of kids from Brooke to Bluefield, Wheeling to James Monroe playing a VT team made up of kids from Blacksburg, Harrisonburg, Bristol and Roanoke. All for the love of the game. TRUE student athletes playing other true student athletes. No athletic scholarships - only academic ones or none at all, even. Playing teams we fans could all travel to on a balmy, fall day. The rest of "elite college sports" can then turn into the NBA and NFL - things I ignore and have no intention of ever watching. Sorry ESPN, sorry Fox, sorry CBS, can't watch your "must see" game between Alabama and Texas because I'll be in Morgantown watching people worth caring about. [/QUOTE]

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