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IMO Alpha makes a good point. How many players over the years put themselves first without giving a care about their university. I agree that it goes both ways. This is a different day and age. Universities are about making money period. These kids are making choices of universities on who can get them into the NFL, and if they can do it in three years then they're gone. They already are thinking this while in high school. The university is a business and they too need to protect their interests.

I have more then one business, and if my competitors are able to gain an advantage over me by a certain tactic I will most certainly follow suit, if it allows me to stay competitive. I am not going to go out of business because I don't want to hurt someone's feelings, and I'm not in business to break even. I have a family, and I will do what it takes to stay alive in the business world. My kids are counting on me to deliver. Now I know OSU isn't going to go out of business, but I'm sure they don't want to fall off their perch of being on top of the revenue world.

Do I think it's right? No it's not pretty to let a kid go, but if the NCAA thinks its so bad, then why haven't they stepped in and introduced rules to stop this. They have not, and it goes to show you that they are big business and money rules. They too don't care about the young men. So we and the BIG are going to carry the integrity torch? I say screw that. The damn NCAA doesn't care. This is a cold world. It is what it is.

That is one thing I've noticed also. Their recruiting is not being hurt by it. The players know if they don't cut it then they're out. The talent keeps coming with no end in sight.

I will say this. My hat is off to Urban for not oversigning in that conference and still win two NC's. He is rare one for pulling it off, but the pressure to do it and stay competitive might have cost him his health in the process.

You're ignoring the biggest factor on why this practice SUCKS, and the NCAA should have stepped in long ago if they had any balls. The kids may leave schools, but they have rules that manage how they do it. Like sitting out a year if transferring to another D1 school, and even to the point that the school has to give permission in certain cases. And rules that you can not leave for the NFL until after your junior year. Rules that ONLY apply to the athlete.

There are NO RULES on how the school has to treat the athletes. THERE is the big problem. They can do whatever they want, including telling the kid "sorry, he has no scholarship" until when he actually shows up in the fall to start school. Disgraceful that they can get him to sign, make a one-way BINDING commitment in February, then string him along so he couldn't get a spot on a roster with another really good school before school starts in the fall. This is what is disgraceful about the practice.

The three year rule is a NFL rule not a college rule.

Ok what about kids in recruiting? Tell me how is it fair that these kids play these recruiting games like waiting all the way to signing day to only go elsewhere and the schools left holding a scholly is now screwed? Where as If the kid doesn't take a WHOLE TWO YEARS to make a decision other programs don't have to worry about getting left at the alter?

What about guys who commit to you ONLY to go elsewhere before signing day and screw you outta other kids because you thought you had their commitment? Remember Roy Roundtree was a commitment to Purdue his whole senior year season and then at the LAST min he flipped to scUM. How was that fair to Purdue?

Face it, players use programs and now the SEC is using players.

And they certainly would not have reeled off 6 straight NC's.

I actually do not disagree with you.