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

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We are the only country which pairs academics and competitive athletics. And athletics is perhaps the only profitable part of a university. The goals are different for a university and its “semi-pro” athletes. The fans are stuck in the middle.

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Its hard to imagine a university which can afford an athletic department that does not make more money doing research than the AD does. Even at athletic mills like SEC schools all but football, possibly basketball and baseball, "make" money...all of the other things cost money.

Collegiate athletics is uniquely American. It does not happen anywhere else in the world, not on anywhere near the scale it does in the US. It is also relatively new in the US in relationship to higher learning in the US. It is easy to imagine many universities simply ending it altogether. Not the Texas's and OSU's but Vandy and Duke????