"He said that the so-called "free ride"-- the popular term for athletic scholarships -- usually doesn't pay for an athlete's day-to-day living expenses, which some college athletes struggle to meet."
As do all college students, especially those who receive no money from the college because theres not enough left over after the athletes get their free ride.
Nobody is holding a gun to their heads forcing them to play. If they're not pleased with just a full scholarship, they can take their pampered selves someplace else.
Sounds like a good way to work your way through school to me. (I know that not all players get scholarships.)
Between tuition, and room and board, transportation to and from home a couple of times a year; it’s about $30-40,000.
Add great looking women wanting to be with you, it’s not a bad deal for the players.
Same here. What little I hear on the local AM stations some evenings right before I flip the station is the worship of college and in some cases HS ball players. Someone wants to play and does well, no problems there but the worship is unreal.
...and THAT should be the beginning AND the end of the discussion.
And the kids are not allowed to have jobs or receive outside assistance lest they be corrupted. Well, when the kid’s family is poor as dirt how is the kid supposed to get by?
“As do all college students, especially those who receive no money from the college because theres not enough left over after the athletes get their free ride. “
You think? Ohio State University got roughly $14 million for their appearance in the Sugar Bowl. That doesn’t count television revenue, ticket sales, and advertising throughout the season. The football team and the basketball team at most division I schools pays for the rest of the sports programs.
Football and basketball are big business at major colleges. The problem is, how do you break that out from everyone else? In the communist view, all must be treated the same. A member of the golf team, or tennis team is to be valued equally to the football team members.
Baloney, if a sport makes BIG money for a school, the athletes should be compensated. Yes, football and basketball players should get a stipend. Golf team, tennis team, volleyball team, sorry about your luck.
Do Democrats sh*t in the woods???????? Yes!
Almost everyone of these kids who finish their eligibility or graduate, and are not selected to play in the next level—pro—,always end up in very good jobs given to them by influential alumni whether the former athlete is a glorified car salesmen,customer service rep or in marketing.
Alumni give the The former players these jobs as in public relations to sell/market the alumnus businesses.
Capitalism works well if we let it.
Eliminate athletic scholarships and force these universities to focus on their core mission of educating students for tomorrow’s work needs. Sports team will still be there, however, the particpants will be actual students.
It’s liberal ideology. Someone else makes money off of your labor. If they didn’t there wouldn’t be a job. I’m still paying off my student loans. Wonder how many student loans the football team has to deal with? It’s class warfare.
As far as the value of an education it varies from school to school. A full ride at Stanford can be worth $250,000. That ain’t working free.
In my opinion, unions would kill the smaller/weaker programs and weed out alot opportunities to get good educations for high school athletes.
This is the same reason why I am against a college football playoff for DI-FSC. It would pair down college football to 30-40 teams and greatly reduce the athletic budgets and opportunities for vast numbers of athletes in many sports (college football and men's basketball are the only athletic money-makers for athletic programs and in some cases fund the budgets of all of the other sports at the university) that never will play professional sports.
Articles like this are written from the perspective of the very few elite of the elite that will play at the professional level.
College is meant for education, not to be payed for a voluntary sport. My brother attends a private college, 'competitively priced', at $45,000 including room and board! Needless to say, he lives at home, paying 'only' the $32,000 a year tuition. For a respectable but never-heard-of college. He got the biggest scholarship open to home-schoolers, which covers less than half. Meanwhile these nitwits athletes who don't know an book from a blank get a free ride.
Yes...a sweatshop where virtually every young athlete in America would love a chance to work.
A few of the big-name programs make big bucks on their football programs. Most struggle to get by, and frankly having to pay their athletes outside of scholarship/tutors/etc. would probably just fold up camp.
Go Ducks!!
If CNN is so worry about exploitation, why not get rid of Division 1 sports altogether? No scholarships for athletes, and the quality of sport drops to guys working out after going to class, like it was meant to be. Then , if the NBA and NFL want to have a minor league system, they can fund it themselves.
I didn’t read the full article but a college scholarship is a wonderful thing for those kids!!! My experience is not with football, but with another sport in which the athletes are very well trained and work their asses off, because they love the sport and want to succeed. Being an NCAA athlete is a wonderful thing. It’s nothing to pity. MOST ATHLETES are not on TV like the b-ball and football guys are. They do it for the love of the sport, the thrill of tough competition, and the full or partial scholarship does not hurt.
Full tuition, room and board. What else is needed? Clothes? Pell grants are rather generous nowadays. Anybody who has tuition, room and board paid can live off a Pell grant. And then there are student loans.
Those poor college athletes. Next they’ll whine about the poor high school athletes that get nothing from anyone.