Pay for play

Would you work if your employer gave you 12 places you could eat, a shitty one bedroom apartment and additional training and no salary? None of that shite you listed is money which is what we all work for.

If they’re getting paid they would receive a 1099 and get taxed on that payment which doesn’t happen. Getting benefits isn’t pay.

Also those places you chose to live were your choices, had you been more valuable (like the players) maybe you would have been in a better position. Just because you couldn’t create value doesn’t mean those who do should be punished.

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Would you work if your employer gave you 12 places you could eat, a shitty one bedroom apartment and additional training and no salary? None of that shite you listed is money which is what we all work for.

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You are confusing a job with a college education.

If they want a job, they should go find one.

For some odd reason, they want an education and a chance to play college athletics and have someone pay for it.

They are not forced. It’s a choice.

You can’t choose a situation you don’t like and then force that situation to mimic a better situation that you either didn’t choose, or are not qualified for.

The total package of a college football player is worth more than the XFL, WNBA and most minor league baseball players.

The work they put in (football in particular) obviously creates more value than what they are paid out of we wouldn’t see stadium upgrades across the country. Pay them a wage they’ve truly earned and take away all the benefits and the players should end up way ahead. A scholly, food and health care aren’t equal to the value these kids bring to the university. Honestly a full ride to a 85 kids to a school with 30,000 people is NOTHING off their books. Stop acting like this is value equal to what the players are bringing as a whole to the schools because it’s simply not.

You don’t think playing college football is a job? You don’t think those kids are putting 40hrs a week on football?

They do not have "shitty places to live".

They have professional chefs who cook them whatever they want at every meal.

They live in nice apartments.

They have their tuition paid and it is worth thousands every year.

They receive $800 to $1000 per month in total cost of attendance money.

They all seem to have vehicles.

Their books are paid for.

Their tutors are free.

Their medical issues are paid for.

Stop with the poor pitiful BS. They are students not professionals and are more than fairly compensated.