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Old Wed Feb 05, 2003, 07:38pm
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I guess I just get sick of all the pontificating (there's that word again!) about "amateur" sports stars, especially NCAA ones. I'm a big believer in overhauling the system, paying the players, opening the colleges' books, etc, to eliminate all the fuss and feathers it seems to create.

People complain constantly about sports figures: salaries, their attitudes, every little thing they do. Other notable people in society (rock stars, actors, etc), who may do the same things and act the same way, are not held to the same level of scrutiny. It's hypocritical and pathetic.

Yes, athletes are treated special, and why-don't-we-treat-academic-stars-the-same-way-yada-yada-yada. That's a larger (and legitimate) discussion for another time.

If he blows out his knee, and has nothing to fall back on, where will all this "concern" be? Although he does claim to be a 3.5.

Bottom line: let the kid be. The world's a twisted place.
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