Bud Kilmer ways of dealing with injuries

The issue is not them blaming coaches. The issue centers around them being fairly compensated for the risk they are exposed to.

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The issue centers around them being fairly compensated for the risk they are exposed to.

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This is a choice they make. They don't have to play football. If they feel they are not fairly compensated for their services, they are well within their rights to find another field where they will be.

That Moxon ain't worth the Charmin extra soft he wipes his butt with

You mean the risk they signed up for? The risk they choose to accept by playing football in the first place?

Yea... no. Sorry, but your post makes zero sense.

Billy Bob shot half of his trophies over that a-hole. But Billy Bob saw Ms Davis' tits and Kilmer didn't.

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Let them have endorsements

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They can. They just can't be NCAA student athletes and do so.

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Everything in life is a choice

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Exactly. And if they feel like they are worth more than the compensation they receive in college, they have a choice to go elsewhere where they are fairly compensated in their opinion.

For instance, if I was being paid $10.00/hour and I felt like I was worth more for the work I was doing, I would either seek new opportunities or rethink my chosen career path.

No one forces them to choose to be entertainers. It's their way out of poverty for a lot of athletes. They know, before they commit to their athletic endeavors that there is a waiting period before they can be financially compensated for their trade. If they know this going in, what place do they have to complain? If they were being paid all along and it just stopped one day after they made that commitment, then I may be more inclined to feel sympathy for them.

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They aren’t employees

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exactly, they're college students and basically interns. I wasn't paid when I was an intern either. I also wasn't provided free lodging, a free education, free clothes, free food, and everything I needed to live very well in college and in my post-graduate education. 99% of these guys are not even marketable. They will not make enough money playing a sport to live on the rest of their lives. But what they do have is an incredible, and fortunate, opportunity that, because they're good at a sport, they can take advantage of all that is provided to them to have career opportunities many never would have were they not athletes. They have the choice to take advantage of those opportunities or not.

Or, would a fairer system be that they are able to be paid but at whatever the market dictates. However, with that, no athlete would get anything for free in college. they take out their own student loans to provide for themselves. That might be beneficial for the nominal number of athletes that could actually profit off of their likeness. but what about the other 99% of athletes? Would they be ok with leaving college a couple hundred thousand dollars in debt like everyone else? My guess is no.

I'm sorry, but when they commit to wanting to play a sport for a living, they are very aware of the 3-4 year sacrifice they have to make to get to that point. If they don't think that's fair, they have the option not to embark on that journey and figure out another way to provide for themselves and their families. If they think a better route would be to work hard in high school, get into college, and be a regular student, they can. if they think entering the workforce out of high school would be more beneficial, they can. Again, this is a choice they all make, knowing full-well what that commitment entails.

Just think about that statement. They don't have to play football. Let me ask you, are you forced to work at your job? Do you consider yourself to be fairly compensated for the type of work you do? If your boss came up to you and stated that for here on out raises will be eliminated. We are increasing your workload, but not compensating you for it. Is that accepted to you?

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Every 5 star recruit would go to the school that offers the most endorsments.

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Good. Schools would have to compete to have the best resources to land endorsements.

If Auburn has better negotiators than LSU, then LSU should get better