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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by harryh on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:53PM (#20963858)
Many students who attend American universities aren't just buying education. They are buying a "college experience" of which sports are a major part.
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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by partialrecall on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:00PM (#20963960)
That might be a reason for the system to remain as it is, but it doesn't explain why the system is that way in the first place.

Furthermore, if the desires of the students were really the root motivation, then Alabama wouldn't need to manipulate the desires of students by providing weird point-system incentives.

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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by lonelappde on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:06AM (#20970551)
And we should fix that. Sending kids to $100K parties that cripple their career prospects is bad. Fun is great, but not at this cost.
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