Forty years of season tickets, third generation in our seats. Here's what the employment crowd misses: minor-league baseball pays its players and draws 4,000 fans on a good night. We draw 100,000. The product is the school. People pay because those are OUR kids, wearing OUR colors, going to OUR classes. Turn them into university employees and you've built Triple-A football with homework, and Triple-A football doesn't sell out stadiums or move TV needles. The amateur tie, real or romanticized, is the entire business model. Kill it and you don't get fairer football. You get emptier stadiums.
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