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Fixing College Sports: Why Paying Student Athletes Won't Work

New York Magazine - Commentary

November 29, 2011

The abuses in college athletics - and they are real - stem from the growing imposition of market forces. Institutionalizing that ethos would almost certainly make all those abuses worse. That's why the constantly expressed demand that we put college athletes on professional salary is so ill-formed. It is not so much a plan as an expression of free-floating contempt for college sports.

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