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Agreed. If the NCAA catches you buying dinner for a college athlete you can lose a number of scholarships for several years. Why wouldn't these violation of H1Bs come along with a fine and a loss of H1B access for x number of years? That would go a long way toward solving the problem.

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That sounds like the player, who should be paid millions for plying gets punished for receiving the dinner, rather than the school.

The equivalent would be banning the H1b holder from the US. The NCAA is the model to follow if you want to make something more exploitative, not less

Say what you will about the NCAA but they do a good job ensuring a level playing field for all college athletes (despite being Nazis while doing it).

It's no fun hearing about poor athletes struggling to eat at college but, at the very least, the Manziels and the Gurleys of the US are held to an identical standard and that counts for something.

The scandals say otherwise. They are absolutely terrible at it.

The only efficiency they excel at is screwing over the players

When the students working at concession stand at a football game are paid while the players aren't, it's not a fair system. So many students get paid for what they do in conjunction with their studies. If a third string swimmer teaches lessons on weekends, nobody stops him from getting paid. The rules only seem to apply to top athletes.

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