re: UCLA to announce 15-year, $280 million deal with Under Armour

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because their job is to go to class and be students while also playing football.

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and then people get to make hundreds of millions of dollars off their little in between activity?

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Ya know, not being paid for their services.

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please explain to me why this is right

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..this is literally their actual job which necessitates compensation.

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and their jobs literally come off the back of these adults who they exploit

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these kids are getting 6 figures worth of free shite that the normal college student doesn't.

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lol

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"The average athletic scholarship is about $10,400"

here says a mens athletic scholarship is worth $14,270

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Free housing, free food, unlimited access to tutors and private instruction, health/medical coverage, free clothes, a tryout 12 times a year to their future employer showing their worth, etc.

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which is worth pennies over the hundreds of million of dollars they provide the school with

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The day college fb players get paid legally is the day CFB as we've known it will die.

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please tell me how big of an amateur sport it is right now. schools sell tshirts and jersies with players numbers on them. they build 100k stadiums that require PSLs to buy season tickets for. they sell media rights that are worth like 1/3 or 1/2 of a billion dollars. but yea, totally an armature sport