re: If all college football players had to pass a high school exit exam to play div 1 football

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You're on the right track, IMO. None of this has anything to do with education or sportsmanship. At this point, it should either go back to real students competing as amateurs, or go full professional. Universities should have to sell their athletics programs, facilities and related intellectual property. Go back to the original purpose of tertiary education, which is currently failing and taking the country down with it.

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If things continue to head in the direction they are headed, and there is no indication that they won't, it is pretty easy to imagine a large number of Universities simply doing away with their athletic programs altogether. Most of them are not making money and none of them bring money to the university that academic research does. There is already animosity between academics and athletics at just about every school.