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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: [OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:27:55 -0400 (EDT)
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>
>Just spin college football off. 

It's happening.  When I went to a big Southern football college back in
the seventies, we had special dorms for football players, special classes
and a special major for football players, and while players weren't allowed
to be paid by the school they were allowed to accept all sorts of amazing
gratuities like the use of sports cars owned by the athletic department.

Recently the NCAA has made it legal for "student athletes" to get paid and
so you can expect college football to be completely divorced from the
actual universities themselves very soon.

Mind you, there are still universities with actual students on their 
football team.  A local college is in NCAA Division III and has students
who take classes and actually do college-level work on their team.  It
was a huge shock to me.  A co-worker went to Caltech and she is fond of 
remarking that Caltech has had more Nobel prize winners on their football
team than any other American university.
--scott

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