<p>I don’t understand why Mr. Kravitz thinks the solution is to mix minor-league players and scholar-athletes on the same (college) teams.</p>
<p>For the revenue-generating sports (i.e., typically football and men’s basketball), it should be viable for the professionals (NFL, NBA) to support a minor league system. Then, a young athlete in those sports could choose to play either college or minor league ball. This dual-track system seems to work pretty well for baseball.</p>
<p>What am I missing here? Yes, the quality of college play would be diluted since many of the talented players would opt for the minors (i.e., those for whom college is pretty much a farce). But would the college fans stop supporting the team and/or donating to the university? I mean, Harvard and Yale seem to do all right.</p>