OK just read that Katie Hoff has gone professional. Not that this has any bearing on anything but I am bit bummed.
I really was hoping that she would break Pablo’s NCAA records for most wins in college. There is a part of me that
really wants to have swimmers be amateurs, but that is quickly blasted out of the water with all the DUAH! Why
wouldn’t an oober athlete get millions of dollars for their athletic talents --that is years overdue. Does any one think
swimmers will get to be “divas” or “divos” like some professional athletes?
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Katie Hoff needs to what's best for her. I would like to see a more accommodating NCAA. It's a shame that a swimmer is essentially DQ'd from collegiate swimming by getting little pay check from doing a paid Speedo ad or clinic. At the University of Colorado they had a very promising football player who also happened to be a world class bump skier. Jeremy Bloom. Unfortunately the NCAA told him he couldn't play football if he became pro skier, two completely different sports. Anyway the NCAA/University monopoly makes billions off the Football and Basketball and quite frankly the colleges our getting off cheap by just paying the athlete just a scholarship
Katie Hoff needs to what's best for her. I would like to see a more accommodating NCAA. It's a shame that a swimmer is essentially DQ'd from collegiate swimming by getting little pay check from doing a paid Speedo ad or clinic. At the University of Colorado they had a very promising football player who also happened to be a world class bump skier. Jeremy Bloom. Unfortunately the NCAA told him he couldn't play football if he became pro skier, two completely different sports. Anyway the NCAA/University monopoly makes billions off the Football and Basketball and quite frankly the colleges our getting off cheap by just paying the athlete just a scholarship
