Reply to "What implications for college baseball?"

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The players do not have value as minor league athletes. Their value is their ability to promote tribal loyalty to the university brand.

There isn't a market demand for several hundred minor league basketball and football teams, but there are several hundred schools who value what the athletes can do for them.

For all the people insisting that compensation should be capped at cost of attendance while also bemoaning how many college athletes are not qualified students: if you know most of these students won't make money in the pros and won't earn degrees that will launch them on careers, how can you possibly justify capping their compensation at the one time in their life they have economic value AND insist on paying them in a currency they do not value?

3/17/148:26 PM

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