by Schmick » Thu Jun 08, 2017 1:28 pm
Yes. I went to college about an hours drive from where I grew up.
Student athletes are commodities, there is no denying that fact. Look at how nike advertises all over Oregon's softball team and how the school uses those girls to bring the school more money. But not 1 single player on Oregon's roster was from Oregon, not a one.
California spends a ton of tax dollars on parks and fields and lights for those fields. California property taxes pay for the prep teams facilities that many of these club programs use as well.
So why should other states, who have spent 0 on the development of their own local talent, be permitted to come to California and steal our girls because theirs aren't good enough to compete?
A schools athletic teams should be representive of the schools student body. So if 90% of Oregon's students are from Oregon than 90% of Oregon's student athletes on scholarship should be from Oregon, same with oklahoma, florida, auburn, alabama.... call it title ix-a