re: Eric Reed's Complaining LSU Spent $28 Million to Upgrade Locker Room

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Is he saying we should have donated that money to the nation of islam instead?

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Perhaps each player in college could be afforded one knee pad with that money.

simply wish Eric a good day and STFU...

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He's saying that these young guys are risking their health and future earnings to entertain you every Saturday night and they should be paid for their work dummy.

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They are getting paid. They are getting a free education at an institution that they probably would of never been accepted to if they couldn’t run fast

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He's saying that these young guys are risking their health and future earnings to entertain you every Saturday night and they should be paid for their work dummy. ?

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I've never seen a proposal for how to do this that wouldn't violate federal Title IX and/or turn football and basketball players into the only professional athletes on campuses.

I suddenly have a strong desire to troll TF out of Eric Reid.

Posted this on the SEC rant thread, but if we are being honest with ourselves, this arms race of newer better facilities is pretty ridiculous.

The money spent on sports facilities, locker rooms, etc is mind boggling. Every school is doing it. And to no end. Rarely does it enable you to do anything other than keep up with the other guy.

Millions and millions of dollars spent on things that aren't used 95% of the year. It's fairly absurd when you think about it.

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Millions and millions of dollars spent on things that aren't used 95% of the year

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As a former college athlete I can tell you this is far from true. I would say the locker room, field house, and player's lounge are used year round by the majority of players,especially upperclassmen who live off campus and stay through the summer. Why do you think the former lettermen typically earmark their donations to these?

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They are getting a free education at an institution that they probably would of never been accepted to if they couldn’t run fast

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Come on we are talking about LSU, not Harvard. I don't think they should be paid but players should be able to make money off their likeness.

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He's saying that these young guys are risking their health and future earnings to entertain you every Saturday night and they should be paid for their work dummy.

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He's criticizing LSU for spending millions on the locker room remodel (money that was donated for that specific purpose) instead of using that same money to pay players. Please tell me how LSU is going to pay players without breaking NCAA rules? He needs to take up his gripe about players not being paid with the NCAA, not LSU

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there are issues to be addressed

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I think many who push the pay players narrative have no idea what it would do. This is Pandora's box. Allowing compensation for their likeness is a very broad term and can be interpreted a litany of ways. The schools compliance department would need to be beefed up or the NCAA compliance department would need to in order to process "requests", after proper vetting the payments would need to be processed and documented, and audits would need to be performed to insure there is no impropriety occurring. Now we've spent money to make sure the student athletes don't lose eligibility or aren't being used in a money laundering scheme, who pays for it? Do you charge the athlete an administrative fee? Charge it back to the University/Athletics Department? Do you cap and limit the earning potential of an athlete? Also need to make sure that offers aren't agreed upon during recruitment or aren't the cause of an athlete entering the transfer portal.

I have yet to see anyone lay out a path to athlete compensation, just general retorts pointing to a handful of schools that make a profit in athletics which neglects the 90% that do not. Or pointing at new buildings, upgrades, or coaches salaries without accounting for the support of donors and use of bonds and foundations that provide that support.

As someone who spent time on both sides of the coin I can say that scholarship athletes have it way better than walk-on's or everyday students. Especially when you consider athletes today get: free tuition, room and board, top flight medical care, stipends, food, nutrition, stipends that cover books and then some, PELL grants (especially in the South), and work opportunities (I've cleaned up stadiums, locker rooms, campus, etc. for work credit to cover costs). I've been there done that and somehow found a way to cover my cost of attendance and still save enough over the summer to have dates/fun when time allowed. It wasn't Ruth's Chris and Perignon, but it was still fun and got the job done more times than not.