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That doesn't change the fact that they have an opportunity to do something better at a school like UGA. Yes, if they don't want to be college students, then they shouldn't be here. But guess what? Some of them will have better lives as a result of being here. I'm all for reform, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water. And for the love of Jehovah, don't destroy the whole damn thing in the name of reform.

The thing will destroy itself. Between the agents and the gamblers alone... but throw in the inequities and the bold faced hypocrisy and it will eventually bubble over.

I saw UGAs football program give some guys who would not have had a chance, a shot in life and they took it and ran with it and are doing good til this very day. I also saw it eat up and spit put a lot more. Pychically and psychologically. The football guidance conselours knew most certainly what majors and classes were easy and pushed as many that way as they could. even the people who had good grades and would have gotten into UGA on their own merits. It is totally self serving to the coaches who are making or losing a lot of money off the players. It also affects revenues to the school along with some fake pride that the athletes are student who happpen to play a sport...

...but to sew this back up, the only time you can actually work and make money, legally, is during the Summer or during christmas break if you do not make a bowl... pretty much everyone makes a bowl now, so you have really 7 or 8 weeks of summer. Those days are now taken away with mandatory work outs. Sure, it may well make the team better, but the NCAA could easily work this out to even the field as even as it can be with a system that turns its head to cheating and shenanigans... So, either just come clean and tell us football is a huge money making enterprise for the college and fielding winning teams is more important than educating the players on the team and compensate them acccordingly or change the rules so that this is about a college that fields a team of its students...