re: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver hammered the NCAA

it's hilarious that one example was a kid who got a discount for a ballroom for his 21st birthday party

who on here had enough money to fund a 21st birthday party so large that it required a ball room?

i've said for going on 10 years now they should ease up the endorsement restrictions, because that is the ONLY way you can deal with this issue without killing all the minor sports. almost every athletic department already loses money, and once you pay males, you have to pay females due to title 9. that is going to destroy tons of sports because it just isn't financially viable.

you can cherry pick a few SJWs and disgruntled former players to talk about how horrible things are. however in these segments, you never see people on swimming scholarships get to talk about how thankful they are to get an educational opportunity. you start paying players and they're done.

or you can create a "super conference" where players can be paid...which would destroy sports in the other conferences because the march madness money would go to the super conference (with maybe a little dribbling down to the small conferences).

these segments/stories are pretty much always ignorant to how CFB works, too. they don't differentiate between what the university pays and what private donar organizations (like LSU's TAF).

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I use to feel this way, but I find myself leaning more toward the athletes now.

Mostly because their jerseys are sold, the autographs are sold, their likeness is used in games, but they are not allowed to receive a single dollar.

That is kind of bullshite.

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You know what else is kind of bullshite, the fact that these individuals are granted admission to some of the best universities in the country despite having sub-par standardized test scores or grade point averages.

People need to stop acting like the poor, little student-athletes aren't receiving a number of benefits due, in large part, to God-given ability and superior genetics. These individuals aren't held to the same scholastic standards as their peers and are taken care of in a number of ways that most people could not even imagine.