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<blockquote data-quote="Froggish" data-source="post: 3161095" data-attributes="member: 71860"><p>A model like you’re describing would still be a long ways off. Fake amateurism is going to go away kicking and screaming. I’m not saying it won’t happen but eroding ties with the education system is not near as easy as people are making it out to be. What people who are studying this stuff are running into is that it’s hard to quantify what detaching from the education system would do for the long term popularity of the sport. It’s not clear that people in Alabama, or anywhere else, would be as passionate about a team that wasn’t a part of the university system. Putting an “A” on the side of a helmet is not the same as the illusion that these are “kids” we go to school with. In addition the amateur model is one that likes to pretend it protects woman’s and Olympic sports by funding them with football money. At the end of the day a Semi-Pro super league sounds like a no brainer until you begin to unravel the emotional connection these schools have to the amateur illusion model.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Froggish, post: 3161095, member: 71860"] A model like you’re describing would still be a long ways off. Fake amateurism is going to go away kicking and screaming. I’m not saying it won’t happen but eroding ties with the education system is not near as easy as people are making it out to be. What people who are studying this stuff are running into is that it’s hard to quantify what detaching from the education system would do for the long term popularity of the sport. It’s not clear that people in Alabama, or anywhere else, would be as passionate about a team that wasn’t a part of the university system. Putting an “A” on the side of a helmet is not the same as the illusion that these are “kids” we go to school with. In addition the amateur model is one that likes to pretend it protects woman’s and Olympic sports by funding them with football money. At the end of the day a Semi-Pro super league sounds like a no brainer until you begin to unravel the emotional connection these schools have to the amateur illusion model. [/QUOTE]
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