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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6282330" data-attributes="member: 17106"><p>People may take those attachments with them wherever they go, but I don't think they would form them in the first place if they had strong professional teams to root for instead. It seems to me that there's very little overlap geographically between the major college powers in basketball and football and the professional teams. To me, that's why big college sports is such an American phenomenon.</p><p></p><p>For football and basketball, yes. However, there are other sports with different models. Minor league baseball and college baseball coexist perfectly fine. In the tennis world, going to college is a disadvantage; college players rarely succeed as professionals and the professional players that make a living at it do so at a young enough age that they skip out on a lot of education.</p><p></p><p>Well, the NCAA comes out very well, but I would argue that the NFL and NBA would be better served by having developmental leagues like some of the other sports (which we've occasionally seen feeble attempts at but not anything that would replace college athletics).</p><p></p><p>I want to agree with that in principle. However, I would think there has to be some limitation on how much education. College isn't for everyone, and it's at least debatable whether it should be paid for by everyone. Certainly, I would have preferred it if I were recruited like a college athlete and if my education had been paid for, but that doesn't mean it's right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6282330, member: 17106"] People may take those attachments with them wherever they go, but I don't think they would form them in the first place if they had strong professional teams to root for instead. It seems to me that there's very little overlap geographically between the major college powers in basketball and football and the professional teams. To me, that's why big college sports is such an American phenomenon. For football and basketball, yes. However, there are other sports with different models. Minor league baseball and college baseball coexist perfectly fine. In the tennis world, going to college is a disadvantage; college players rarely succeed as professionals and the professional players that make a living at it do so at a young enough age that they skip out on a lot of education. Well, the NCAA comes out very well, but I would argue that the NFL and NBA would be better served by having developmental leagues like some of the other sports (which we've occasionally seen feeble attempts at but not anything that would replace college athletics). I want to agree with that in principle. However, I would think there has to be some limitation on how much education. College isn't for everyone, and it's at least debatable whether it should be paid for by everyone. Certainly, I would have preferred it if I were recruited like a college athlete and if my education had been paid for, but that doesn't mean it's right. [/QUOTE]
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