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To: BlueCrab who wrote (18949)	3/11/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Of course, my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek with that remark. I know that there were all kinds of shenanigans going on with athletes where I went to school. I don't think the NBA should subsidize college basketball players. The NBA only would care about the 40 or 50 players (out of more than 2,500 Division I players) who have a chance of making the NBA. I do think that the schools should be allowed to take some of that tournament and shoe revenue and subsidize players' living expenses. Academic fraud is going to be the next big scandal. Minnesota isn't the only place where that is going on. I'm a big sports fan but I have always had a big problem with the way high school and college athletes are put on a pedestal. There was a kid in my high school class who had all the athletic ability in the world. 6'2", 200 lbs., could run a 10.0 hundred yard dash, strong as an ox. He wasn't much of a student though. He got a football scholarship to a Div. I school I will not name and he was glorified in our home town like a Roman General after a triumph. He quit college after two weeks because he couldn't handle the coursework. The problem was that everyone at home was so occupied with his athletic exploits that they let him get by with next to nothing academically in high school, and he freaked when he actually had to do course work in college.