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Subject: Re: Four Articles on What It's Like in the NIL Sewer

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Date Posted: 17:26:03 05/09/24 Thu
In reply to: Quaker62 's message, "Re: Four Articles on What It's Like in the NIL Sewer" on 17:39:53 05/08/24 Wed

If the Ivies don't care about this stuff, why does Tommy Amaker make so much money?

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Author: 2 cents worth [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 14:14:01 06/01/24 Sat "This stuff" has just started. Ask that question in 10 years while watching the Ivy football champion finally get that post season test against a solid Nescac rival.

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Date Posted: 17:50:14 06/01/24 Sat

This stuff has been around since before Lou Gehrig barnstormed as a Columbia Freshman.

The only thing is that the facade has dropped. Athletes at all schools aren't representative of the student body. Harvard recruits skiers whose GPA without a decent slalom run time wouldn't get them in. Yale recruits gymnasts the same way. Columbia recruits archers. Cornell recruits equestrians. None of these are on the team solely because they happened to get admitted to these schools.

Now - sure there's a matter of degree - and we haven't heard of any FedEx envelopes filled with cash, but we also have heard of Mitch Marrow and the Princeton tennis player whose family friend footed many bills... and those things happened WAY AFTER the implementation of the AI and the "no scholarship" and "no bowl game" tut-tutting took place. So there's that, too.

Not to mention Varsity Blues and Jerome Allen, and etc etc.

The upshot is that Alabama is now a more desirable school to attend for academics than it was before Nick Saban, the same way Duke is pre-Krzyzewski and Miami pre-Schnellenberger.

The idea that there is NO GOOD REASON to emphasize sports on campus at the expense of academics is a macguffin, if not a falsehood. And if a strict focus on "academics over athletics" means that many people on campus are unaware of the history of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and/or the meaning of the word "apartheid," then maybe the current priorities are also out of whack.

Sewers are sewers.