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While opening NIL activities to student-athletes, the policy leaves in place the commitment to avoid pay-for-play and improper inducements tied to choosing to attend a particular school. Those prohibitions would remain in effect.

The towering ignorance of the above NCAA statement is truly impressive to behold.

Can you elaborate?  I'm trying to distinguish whether you mean that the NCAA shouldn't seek to limit pay-to-play (and whether that is because you believe the athletes should be paid to play), or whether you think prohibiting pay-to-play is futile (for the reasons that paloalto implied).

I don't think the NCAA is crazy to try to preserve amateurism in collegiate athletics.  It may be that the genie is out of the bottle and we are headed towards recognizing that collegiate athletes are professionals and need to be paid, but I have no interest in watching minor league football played by professional athletes on collegiate campuses, and I suspect that Stanford as a university doesn't either.  So the part of me that appreciates that the Stanford athletes were students just like I was will be saddened.

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While opening NIL activities to student-athletes, the policy leaves in place the commitment to avoid pay-for-play and improper inducements tied to choosing to attend a particular school. Those prohibitions would remain in effect.

The towering ignorance of the above NCAA statement is truly impressive to behold.

Can you elaborate?  I'm trying to distinguish whether you mean that the NCAA shouldn't seek to limit pay-to-play (and whether that is because you believe the athletes should be paid to play), or whether you think prohibiting pay-to-play is futile (for the reasons that paloalto implied).

I don't think the NCAA is crazy to try to preserve amateurism in collegiate athletics.  It may be that the genie is out of the bottle and we are headed towards recognizing that collegiate athletes are professionals and need to be paid, but I have no interest in watching minor league football played by professional athletes on collegiate campuses, and I suspect that Stanford as a university doesn't either.  So the part of me that appreciates that the Stanford athletes were students just like I was will be saddened.

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