Quote Originally Posted by Martinjmpr View Post
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colleges and universities will have to try to move into the inner cities and poorer parts of the country where people might be more willing to risk a life-changing injury if it's their only shot at improving their economic status. But that brings its own problems, not the least of which is that kids from those schools are less likely to be successful in college which means that the colleges will have to "dumb down" their academic programs in order to keep the players from getting cut.

Who knows? If it gets bad enough, colleges may eventually drop the pretext that players are "students" and simply hire them to play football as professionals.
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Aren't they already doing this? I was going to make this same point yesterday, but was having a hard time putting it into words without sounding racist or elitist.