WoodsmanVol
It takes wisdom to understand wisdom.
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BS. Schools are academic institutions - a place where you go to learn the essentials that you will use in life. Most of us paid our way; in my case I traded three years in the Army ('67 - '70) and then used the GI Bill to finish my BS and MS in engineering. Personally, I'm not even sure I agree with the concept of athletic scholarships. You go to school for an education; if you want to play sports, fine. Potential NFL athletes are adequately compensated by universities; they get more hands on training and career development that any other student to make them marketable - the coaching, the body building, the facilities, the opportunity to use and showcase their skills just for starters.
The best solution would be for the NFL to step up and start a minor league, and leave universities to education and amateur sports.
That's true for most of us. However, recruits ARE recruited to play football, hopefully, be a serious cash cow. If that wasn't true the school wouldn't be spending the cash they do for recruiters, hosting player visit, and the time and energy to go after the highest level players they can get. Bulls do **** and it's used for fertilizer which is good for fields and garden, including stadiums and player development programs. But people like you only want to view life via your own person prism and damn everybody else. Which brings us back to schools exploiting players, while denying players the same privilege. Then when they sit out a meaningless bow game covertly and overtly damn them. It's the only time a player has power to say NO. In a nutshell, I semi-like your NFL solution. If done right and not the college way, or abusing players even worse than colleges. Greed sleeps with a lot of strange bedfellows.