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

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The Ivy League still enjoys athletic intercollegiate competition, but they don’t offer athletic scholarships.

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I think in 30 years about 80% of the current BCS programs (or whatever the hell they are called in this day and age) will either eliminate all but club athletics OR mirror the Ivy League blue-print. I would bet a coca cola that even at places like Alabama and UGA they're are "intellectuals" getting louder and louder about the "image" and the "vision" of their respective institutions and universities in general. If you know anything about where colleges get money you know that those people hold a LOT of power because they are responsible for a LOT of revenue...collectively way more than even the most successful football programs, let alone the AD overall. The AD at UGA may not be honest about caring about academics but the faculty, at least some of them, are dead serious and they are the main source of revenue, not the AD, even at places like ATM and Texas and their gazillions of dollars. Research money is the real deal and it begets more research money....Athletics is loss leader to keep the general public aware that the university still exists.....