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LinvilleGorge Grand Master

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2 hours ago, CPcavedweller said:

This is high school. 
 

they don’t need to be offering anything a typical student wouldn’t get. They are STUDENT-athletes. They are athletes second and that is a distant second in the grand scheme of things. As such, they shouldn’t get any more benefit than a theatre or band kid. 
 

but I digress, I’m sure I’ll be flamed for that opinion as we are in an era of putting everyone who plays sports on a pedestal, no matter how young.

This is the pearl clutching college sports fans held onto for decades. Glad to see it still going strong, just shifted to HS now. LOL 

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1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Bingo. Weirdly this stuff always only applies to athletics.

People only want to make a stink about it when it pertains to athletics. There are probably reasons for that, but that discussion is indeed a rabbit hole. 

I think that all students should be held to at least minimum standards academically so that they don't fall through the cracks, because most just aren't going to make it to (or even stay in) the pros. I've seen cases where kids are allowed to skate, slip and ultimately bust their heads because they thought that they were more "special" than they really were.

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20 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Prior to NIL and the transfer portal you at least didn't have the open free agency that has existed at the HS level for years.

I like the free agency. It actually helps basically all schools across the board.

Pretty much only ancient HC's and/or HC's that haven't been able to adjust have been complaining about the free agency.

Your fortunes can be made or broken every offseason. It's not like before where a bad recruiting class or two meant multiyear purgatory. 

I will never understand all the bellyaching about the NIL.

If you want to talk about what ruined college athletics, it has been naked greed. Conference expansions for TV revenue, ever skyrocketing AD and facilities costs and now the attempts to permanently ruin the postseasons(football and basketball). 

All the kids did was get a very well deserved piece of a very, very, VERY broken pie.

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      I like the free agency. It actually helps basically all schools across the board. Pretty much only ancient HC's and/or HC's that haven't been able to adjust have been complaining about the free agency. Your fortunes can be made or broken every offseason. It's not like before where a bad recruiting class or two meant multiyear purgatory.  I will never understand all the bellyaching about the NIL. If you want to talk about what ruined college athletics, it has been naked greed. Conference expansions for TV revenue, ever skyrocketing AD and facilities costs and now the attempts to permanently ruin the postseasons(football and basketball).  All the kids did was get a very well deserved piece of a very, very, VERY broken pie.
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