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The rest of the week all they have to do is go to school for free, getting an education that costs many tens of thousands of dollars at the least, and will prepare them for life. If they are uninterested in that, they can go work out in absolutely stunning state of the art facilities with the best training minds in the country detailing the workouts. They can eat at a scientifically optimized training table several times a day, with large amounts of high quality food at their disposal. Along with the workouts, this allows them to potentially realize the dream of playing professional sports.
They can stroll campus and town, and enjoy an extremely high position in the social pecking order, while wearing clothing and shoes provided to them for free by major manufacturers through the university. And if they feel they are being treated poorly, they can stop doing it and let someone who gets it take a shot.

If the names we see on the jerseys today were not out there, there would still be jerseys playing with other names, and everyone would still watch.

I saw this on my facebook feed and watched the video. ESPN is not going to be happy about Ray Ray and Desmond being part of this.

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The rest of the week all they have to do is go to school for free, getting an education that costs many tens of thousands of dollars at the least, and will prepare them for life. If they are uninterested in that, they can go work out in absolutely stunning state of the art facilities with the best training minds in the country detailing the workouts. They can eat at a scientifically optimized training table several times a day, with large amounts of high quality food at their disposal. Along with the workouts, this allows them to potentially realize the dream of playing professional sports.

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I love how the people who are against college athletes getting paid or say they get all this stuff for free, fail to acknowledge the disparity in money made on their backs as opposed to what they actually get out of it.

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I love how the people who are against college athletes getting paid or say they get all this stuff for free, fail to acknowledge the disparity in money made on their backs as opposed to what they actually get out of it.

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To me it's not an issue if they get paid or not. They probably do deserve some type of stipend, but the notion that they are exploited and treated like meat are overblown. These young men don't do what they do for free they get things in return. Is it enough probably not but why not just say they need more instead of making them seem like slaves to push their agenda.

i love how people who are for it don't realize that only a hand full of university actually make enough to cover. What about every other university in the state other than LSU? how are they going to pay the players? All of this is different with the cost of living stipend now. So they get free room, food, and education and a check every month. The real problem is the sports that don't get full rides (baseball gets 11.7 scholarships to divide among 35 guys) Ask booty how much money he spends a month in student loan payments? I understand it was different back then, but thing have changed. Athletes on full rides are getting checks. No one is going to sleep at night hungry, and if they are, they are spending their money on the wrong things...

I do not fail to acknowledge there is money. I fail to acknowledge that that specific person is necessary to make the money. How many superb teenage athletes either never play, or succumb to drugs or grades or whatever. We don't even know their names. We know the names of the ones who do play, whoever they are. What if LF had gone a different route, and dropped out of school at 14? Would LSU football have ceased to exist?

I also fail to acknowledge that they are not compensated. What if we gave them a stipend but they had to buy all their own gear, pay market price for all training table meals, pay tuition, and pay for the weight room and trainers at the price such a gym membership and personal trainer would command on the open market? Then I might think we would be having a fair discussion.

I'm OK with adding a few dollars to a scholly for pocket money, but I think the whole exploitation argument is insane.

A quick google search says that 70% of College graduates have student loan debt.


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So they free room and board, an education, access to an invaluable network of Alumni, and are probably better off than (to be fair) 60% of graduates. They are getting paid and are paid better than the majority of students and that compensation lasts at a minimum 10 additional years, because they don't have loans to pay off.

The real issue is that the players do not take full advantage of what they are offered. The ones that fail to use the teaching, tutoring, help and every other option afforded to athletes are making a case to tear down a system that actually is extremely beneficial to the majority of scholarship athletes. Not just the few who are delusional to think they will go pro in one of the major sports.

What needs to be changed is the mindset that they all are good enough to go pro. Someone needs to explain the math to them and explain that the majority are already at the pinnacle of their sports careers.

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What happens to the player the rest of the week when the Saturday night lights go out.

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He goes to a university for free, has free housing, and goes to practice where he received training for a possible career that would earn him mullions of dollars.

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Brooty?

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I love how the people who are against college athletes getting paid or say they get all this stuff for free, fail to acknowledge the disparity in money made on their backs as opposed to what they actually get out of it.

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Are you an "everyone gets a trophy" boy? Amateur athletics is not about parity of reward. It is about accomplishing goals and those that do it better get all of the things already laid out in other replies. A decent stipend is all that is needed.

I rarely watch pro football sickened by the showoff little boys wanting more for their petty assclown shite they pull on the field. There are a small minority that act with any level of class. Now I would have to watch it on a collegiate field and know my money is paying for it...keep it!

If it were me, every athlete that competes in NCAA, if playing proball post college would repay every last cent of food, housing, education, et.al., while attending. Smoke that.

PS: Merry Christmas!