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Subject: Welcome, and Loved Your Work in "Volunteers"

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Date Posted: 11:00:42 10/22/24 Tue
In reply to: LawrenceBourneIII 's message, "Re: Attendance" on 21:59:27 10/21/24 Mon

LBIII, thanks very much for your kind words.

We on this board often say that it's the rest of the college sports world which is losing its mind and we're among the few Division I conferences still doing it "right."

Sometimes it feels like our board is an echo chamber, as we try to reassure ourselves that we're on the right path as everybody else moves in a different direction.

It's gratifying to hear your words.

I grieve for American college sports. Athletic departments were and are the "front porch" of American universities, the crown jewel of the world's higher education institutions.

I've said on this board many times that paying college athletes is good for a tiny fraction of athletes, bad for the student bodies and colleges at large, and terrible for America. Competitive sports will go from being unambiguously good for our society to a negative influence.

When you trade a positive development for maybe 1,000 college athletes nationwide against a terrible development for 345 million Americans, you get a tragedy.

Having said that, welcome to our little board, Lawrence. It's a pleasure to have newcomers.

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