re: LeBron James to co-produce HBO documentary on exploitative world of college sports

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Oh yeah, of course I would have had to quit school if I had to help my parents plus pay for everything to keep myself afloat. That or I take out substantial student loans in order to make ends meet.

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So do they have everything they want or not?

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Not what anyone would call a "basic" human right colloquially, no

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I would call it a basic human right in this country.

Look at Donald De La Haye, who was kicked off of UCF for having a youtube page that made a profit. His page had absolutely nothing to do with the university. Yet, the NCAA and UCF found a way to drop the kid because he was making a small profit.

I can't wait for the NCAA to find a way to freak out over twitch.tv and games like fortnite. Where players have a few thousand ppl following them.

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How can he be a champion of this if he has never stepped foot on a college campus before?

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What kind of logic is this?


Sorry, I can't support Breast Cancer Awareness or ALS or any of that because i've never had those diseases.

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So do they have everything they want or not?

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Yes, they have everything they want regarding school... Now you want to argue they want more, I agree, everyone wants more. I wanted to earn more than the 6 bucks an hour Abercrombie paid me during that time as well.

Student-athletes will get no sympathy from me, they have more than most students and have it better off than many as well.

I would have loved the school to take care of my parents while I went to school, would have been lovely and pay me and give me meals for free and books and tuition and clothing and housing

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followed them after leaving their organization I would agree

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They try to follow them after leaving school (Ex.Laremy Tunsil)

The NCAA has done quite a bit to limit the other options for players to make money. I think it is funny to argue that especially for football players (the cash cows for Universities) there are other real options to continue their career.

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What I can't wait for is they start paying people, then football players get paid the most so other groups complain, so then they start paying equally and they have to shut sports down in order to fund everything and everyone. Ah

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Or we just do away with the NCAA and stop living in this fantasy world where we call them "student-athletes". College sports (Specifically CFB & CBB) would be much better if we treated this like an open market and stop using rules that go back to the 1950's.

Look, I agree with yall they should be able to make money off of their likeness

But being a student athlete at LSU, and then hearing yall say they are denied "basic human rights", is something I will never agree with and it is utterly ridiculous to describe it as such

They are given a free education, free food, free housing, free clothes, free healthcare

THey simply arent allowed to make money off of their name/brand if they chose, repeat, if they chose to accept the scholarship

To call that "being denied your basic human rights" is so out of left field is crazy to me

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Would you be cool with paying coaches in tuitiion, room and board, and meal vouchers and everything else you listed?

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Coaches get paid too much as is, so sure, I don't fricking care

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every athlete's parent is taken care of, that's where we've stooped to?

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I think we both know if the University starts paying for one parent, everyone else is going to jump on that train and then you will have many who are wanting the same. You do one hand out, you do many.

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Except you don't get paid, and if you do in some cases, the FBI gets involved...who wouldn't love that!!!

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Correct I got paid while there but I did not get half the free stuff they did, so therefore it worked out. I would have gladly traded working at the fricking mall to have free housing, books, tuition, meals, a stipend, etc. I would have taken every fricking walking class, jogging class, women lit class available.

Then I will take the exposure playing for a university gave me and go and make my money, money that will set me up for life.

If they pay them, then they should make them pay like any other college student. Seems fair

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I think we both know if the University starts paying for one parent, everyone else is going to jump on that train and then you will have many who are wanting the same. You do one hand out, you do many.

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Not sure what you're talking about with universities paying parents.

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Then I will take the exposure playing for a university gave me and go and make my money, money that will set me up for life.

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What if you were an all time star and made your university millions but you're not good enough to go pro, how are you setting yourself up for life, exactly?

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If they pay them, then they should make them pay like any other college student. Seems fair

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It isn't even that they should pay them, it is that they should be allowed to make money on their likeness however they see fit because the days of amateur athletics went out the window years and years ago.