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If you don't want student/athletes to be considered employees, then there can't be a direct connection between the student/athletes providing labor and getting the educational benefit.  "We will only give you a scholarship while you are playing" is pretty coercive.  Of course the other extreme opens the system up to abuse (someone who gains admission and a scholarship to the school but drops their athletic participation at the first opportunity.  So, somewhere in between makes sense, and the student/athlete being on the team for at least two years seems like a reasonable place to draw the line.

BC

[BostonCard]

If you don't want student/athletes to be considered employees, then there can't be a direct connection between the student/athletes providing labor and getting the educational benefit.  "We will only give you a scholarship while you are playing" is pretty coercive.  Of course the other extreme opens the system up to abuse (someone who gains admission and a scholarship to the school but drops their athletic participation at the first opportunity.  So, somewhere in between makes sense, and the student/athlete being on the team for at least two years seems like a reasonable place to draw the line.

BC