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So what else do you think they are losing from not having a tournament?
The opportunity to play at the highest level they'll ever play at?
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Comments like this should earn a banishment
Umm... so you like the exploitation of young people? Universities make millions while “student athletes” get paid peanuts, and you don’t like someone pointing it out? Why?
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The scholarship is for an academic degree, not resume polishing for a professional athletic league. It's in the name.
That's a nice fantasy you are having, but for the elite athletes in the money sports, the scholarship has nothing whatever to do with an academic degree .
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Umm... so you like the exploitation of young people? Universities make millions while “student athletes” get paid peanuts, and you don’t like someone pointing it out? Why?
Interesting camelCase, green user.
it is insane that one can get into a college with zero brain power just for being tall (and ncaa and co enable that). what possible use does society have for that long term?
The upcoming Chinese GP is being rescheduled, and the first-ever Vietnam GP might also fall victim. Bahrain GP is scheduled for Mar 22, so if Australia gets canceled, Bahrain probably will too.
This is a huge and extremely expensive sport, one of the most popular and lucrative in the world, with teams shipping dozens of personnel and many tons of equipment all over the world. The logistics are a nightmare if it gets changed.
I hope actions like this can start to make people wake up that this is in fact serious and should be taken seriously. Still too many people calling it a hoax and that it's no worse than a common cold.
It's like a rather bad influenza. The mortality rate is fairly low and difficult to estimate unless you test the entire population on a regular basis. It isn't like one of the outbreaks that kills 10%, 20%, 50% of the infected.
It shouldn't be ignored, but it also shouldn't be treated like a new black death. It is difficult for uninformed people to say "people are overreacting to a real threat".
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The scholarship is for an academic degree, not resume polishing for a professional athletic league. It's in the name.
That's a nice fantasy you are having, but for the elite athletes in the money sports, the scholarship has nothing whatever to do with an academic degree .
This should result in an immediate extra year of scholarship eligibility for any of the kids effected.