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Everyone else starts scrapping athletic programs and college sports goes the way of the covered wagon and steam locomotives.

There are many schools that have athletic programs without any big football or basketball program to fund them.  Maybe the teams don't fly on charter planes every week to a game half-way across the country, but student athletes still train and compete and  win and lose.

I went to such a school. (Ever been to a football game with literally 100,000 empty seats?)  The events were part of student life.  Athletes were just students that played a sport.  Yet, when I was good enough to compete at Nationals, the school was able to send me (and teammates) to compete half-way across the country.

Maybe the big stadiums and the big gambling pools will go the way of the locomotive.  I believe college athletes will continue to compete against other college athletes.

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Everyone else starts scrapping athletic programs and college sports goes the way of the covered wagon and steam locomotives.

There are many schools that have athletic programs without any big football or basketball program to fund them.  Maybe the teams don't fly on charter planes every week to a game half-way across the country, but student athletes still train and compete and  win and lose.

I went to such a school. (Ever been to a football game with literally 100,000 empty seats?)  The events were part of student life.  Athletes were just students that played a sport.  Yet, when I was good enough to compete at Nationals, the school was able to send me (and teammates) to compete half-way across the country.

Maybe the big stadiums and the big gambling pools will go the way of the locomotive.  I believe college athletes will continue to compete against other college athletes.