[BostonCard]

Students should be allowed to, you know, be students in the spring.

Yeah, the fan part of me might enjoy a premiere tournament in the spring, but trying to extract ever more competition from *student*-athletes, with ever more demands from the athlete side of things, with the accompanying practice schedule, travel, etc, at a time when the students should be taking a heavier course load so that thry can lighten up during the fall, competitive season just reinforces the fact that the schools, the universities, the programs, and the fans, are merely paying lip service to the fact that these are purportedly supposed to be students. It then becomes really hard to turn around and then say that there ought to be some restraints on treating this like a professional sports relationship.

BC

[BostonCard]

Students should be allowed to, you know, be students in the spring.

Yeah, the fan part of me might enjoy a premiere tournament in the spring, but trying to extract ever more competition from *student*-athletes, with ever more demands from the athlete side of things, with the accompanying practice schedule, travel, etc, at a time when the students should be taking a heavier course load so that thry can lighten up during the fall, competitive season just reinforces the fact that the schools, the universities, the programs, and the fans, are merely paying lip service to the fact that these are purportedly supposed to be students. It then becomes really hard to turn around and then say that there ought to be some restraints on treating this like a professional sports relationship.

BC