re: Kareem Abdul Jabbar weighs in on pay for college athletes

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2. A huge argument for the pay athletes side is that the athletes need to be subsidized because their schedules don't allow time for a job, "like normal students" as you put it. Nike and Adidas wouldn't be interested in signing the backup deep snapper, but his schedule precludes him from getting a job just as much as the starting qb. So exactly what problems have been solved here?

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Student athletes get more monetary support than any other scholarship recipients at universities. They get plenty of freer stuff that other students do not. Just like academic scholarships, they are performance based. Don't perform academically while on scholarship, you lose it.

Also, indentured servants had no way out of their contracts. A college athlete can leave at any time without repercussion. They simply lose their scholarship. in the end the athlete whining is just pathetic.