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The NIL is less of a problem than the grad transfer issue in my mind. NIL is money, and the University could find it if they wanted to. Finding an appealing grad program that players could get accepted to and stay is harder. Too many good students on the team can get a portion of grad school paid somewhere else.

Maybe Stanford should start a new graduate program just for athletes.  It could be something like sports management.  It would be a real academic program with classes to assist athletes in their careers during and after they retire from their sport.  I could envision classes in coaching, sports agency, financial management, nutrition, training, etc.

It wouldn't water down the prestige of Stanford's undergraduate program and it could set its own standards for admission.  This would allow both men's and women's sports to bring in grad transfers.  Maybe the only way you could get into the graduate program is if a Stanford coach made the recommendation.

This might also allow us to retain some of our seniors with remaining eligibility rather than have them grad transfer to another school.

I know what you are trying to say, but this is bass ackwards.  We should not, under any circumstances, start a program just for athletes.  We shouldn't even start a program because of athletes.  We should start a program on its own academic merits, full stop.  If it happens to be a good fit for athletes, great.

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The NIL is less of a problem than the grad transfer issue in my mind. NIL is money, and the University could find it if they wanted to. Finding an appealing grad program that players could get accepted to and stay is harder. Too many good students on the team can get a portion of grad school paid somewhere else.

Maybe Stanford should start a new graduate program just for athletes.  It could be something like sports management.  It would be a real academic program with classes to assist athletes in their careers during and after they retire from their sport.  I could envision classes in coaching, sports agency, financial management, nutrition, training, etc.

It wouldn't water down the prestige of Stanford's undergraduate program and it could set its own standards for admission.  This would allow both men's and women's sports to bring in grad transfers.  Maybe the only way you could get into the graduate program is if a Stanford coach made the recommendation.

This might also allow us to retain some of our seniors with remaining eligibility rather than have them grad transfer to another school.

I know what you are trying to say, but this is bass ackwards.  We should not, under any circumstances, start a program just for athletes.  We shouldn't even start a program because of athletes.  We should start a program on its own academic merits, full stop.  If it happens to be a good fit for athletes, great.

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