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[Date] 1 year 17 weeks ago [Body] Is that the players have already been given opportunities for an education that ordinary people cannot receive based on their ability to do something else. The University does not HAVE to bend their rigorous academic standards for them, they choose to. And seeing as how 95% of all athletic departments lose money and it has to be subsidized from the tuition of the non-athletes, the university is not benefiting from their athletic department. They choose to be DI and offer scholarships. They could be DIII, where the athletes play without athletic compensation and have to get into school per the requirements of the school, not the NCAA. What the 20 starlets want is a piece of the pie that is media revenue. At the expense of the non-profit sports. Do you know that the majority of female athletes have partial scholarships and supplement their athletic scholarships with academic ones, meaning that they had to qualify for academics as well as athletics? What about the baseball players that went to college instead of the minor leagues because they wanted a college degree? Or wrestling, which focused on Olympic aspirations, like track and field? The profitable sports HAPPEN to be football and basketball, the two sports that have taken advantage of the NCAA requirements and profited off of their popularity, but if the starlets get what they want, the 500+ athletes who are going to school on scholarship and the thousands of athletes who aspire to play Division 1 ball won't get to do that anymore. The NCAA needs to tighten the rules in some areas, but these athletes don't need to be paid directly. They could choose to sit on their behinds for 1/3 years until they are eligible for the draft. They don't, and they get compensated approximately 90,000 a year for it. [Title] 
The point I'm making
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