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Originally Posted by macallan25
I just don't see how I would be worrying about anything so long as I was keeping myself out of trouble and in good standing on the team.
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But, I thought that's why they took such good care of the athletes? I definitely didn't go to an SEC school, but my undergrad has the best crew teams in the nation, and our athletic conference (D1) specifically outlawed athletic scholarships back in 1954...but we really didn't notice, because the rowers were SO well taken care of--the coaches and the boosters felt that the money was worth it to keep them out of trouble and keep the crew winning.
A friend of the family was a football player at Auburn back in the mid-90s. Boosters would buy him cars, they got his braces, and always kept him in nice clothes. He still didn't finish college. No excuse!