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Subject: Re: Ivy League Degrees Worthless?

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Bengal

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Date Posted: 23:52:03 08/14/24 Wed
In reply to: M3 's message, "Ivy League Degrees Worthless?" on 06:41:32 08/14/24 Wed

I have only seen the article’s title. If the point is Ivy degrees are less valued than in the pre-NIL era, this may be so. But I think the analysis should note that this inherently is not entirely an apple to apple comparison of pre and post NIL timeframes. If some of the likes of Calvin Hill, Brian Dowling, iaccavzii, Bjorklund, Dotson, Marinaro, etc into the 2010s would have jumped for the money, than would we say the degree has lost value? Or was its value always going to be limited by the lure of a certain amount of cash, cars, and housing? Impossible to answer but suggest it has some relevance to discussion. Just an idle thought.

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observer
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Date Posted: 11:01:20 08/15/24 Thu

The idea that the cash and gifts didn't exist before NIL is more ostriching.

It just is no longer punishable.

There's a reason for the phrase "Big Man on Campus."

And to be fair, with the advent of app-based sports gambling, it is necessary and inevitable. If the athletes don't get compensated above board... ask BC and CCNY (and even Columbia - remember Jack Molinas?) how the players will get their fair share in other ways.

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Author: Bengal [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 13:22:30 08/15/24 Thu You are projecting. Yes, there was cheating pre-NIL. The NIL world, and the transferring you are seeing, is a difference, in terms of the extent of its reach and amount of consideration, in kind not degree from earlier times. Open your eyes.