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^ You can't be a paid professional and play that sport as an amateur! This has nothing to do about being paid as Langdon did. It's the same thing in High School. We have a student at our High School he is a paid professional bowler. He is not allowed to be on the bowling team for the High School. Do you think he should be allowed to bowl for the HS, or do you think he has an unfair advantage???

Did you only read the bold part of the article? This was a great article and provides good insight on the situation. I just felt that that part should be bold to show that the NCAA is hypocritical. Question for you Stardust, is it ethical to allow a professional baseball player to receive more than 100k and still play college basketball, yet rule a college football player ineligible because he is paid endorsements as professional skier at the Olympics? The problem is the NCAA deems who is eligible on a case to case basis and are not consistent with their rulings. Reggie Bush recieves monetary benefits=ineligible. Jeremy Bloom has endorsement as a part of the U.S. Olympic skiing team=ineligible.Trajan Langdon plays professional baseball making over 100k, but is ruled he kept his amateurism. Bottom line is there needs to be rules that either NO athlete can receive money or all athletes can. Just last year a foreign national player from Turkey sat out 20 games and then played at WVU.