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Arguably, it's further compromised the education mission of universities by making athletes spend more time away from academic training, and more time toward marketing themselves, which includes both cutting deals, and focusing in on being professional athletes not paid for their work.

This was my problem with the article. It couldn't decide whether to complain that athletes aren't being paid enough or that athletes aren't being adequately educated.  Maybe the complaint is that universities need to better in both, but the reality of the situation is that as a matter of practical fact the two are more or less in opposition.  Collegiate athletics can be an amateur endeavor focusing on academics or it can be a minor league professional league.  To be fair, to a large degree it has been neither to date. But it certainly cannot be both.

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Arguably, it's further compromised the education mission of universities by making athletes spend more time away from academic training, and more time toward marketing themselves, which includes both cutting deals, and focusing in on being professional athletes not paid for their work.

This was my problem with the article. It couldn't decide whether to complain that athletes aren't being paid enough or that athletes aren't being adequately educated.  Maybe the complaint is that universities need to better in both, but the reality of the situation is that as a matter of practical fact the two are more or less in opposition.  Collegiate athletics can be an amateur endeavor focusing on academics or it can be a minor league professional league.  To be fair, to a large degree it has been neither to date. But it certainly cannot be both.

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