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Aug 2, 2020
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ExitStageLeft
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Replace college athletics with comp teams
And let them pay a huge amount of money themselves to play on the beat teams
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I fail to see how NCAA is harming student athletes. If it weren’t for the NCAA
Romex
8/2/20 9:07am
When people never learn how to work for anything, nothing that they receive will
whirl
8/2/20 9:09am
This is where I get insensitive. Hey athletes, you get scholarships, playing
Don_Juan_El_Guapo
8/2/20 9:12am
This may be one of the more easily replaceable group of people out there.
Romex
8/2/20 9:16am
And most of them already have "jobs" where they sit on their yewt and get paid
Don_Juan_El_Guapo
8/2/20 9:19am
And the hard to replace kids aren't boycotting because
Great38
8/2/20 11:25am
It's not a good look when so many people have huge student loan debt and they
mwcoug
8/2/20 9:24am
It would be interesting if schools treated them like employees and then sent a W
mkg
8/2/20 9:31am
That's a good point. How are athlete stipends etc taxed?
ryebrye
8/2/20 9:32am
The scholarship portion isn’t. If the school pays for room and board it’s not.
mkg
8/2/20 9:36am
Make them punch a clock to earn their pay. That would be hilarious.
Romex
8/2/20 9:36am
I wonder what the value of tuition, room and board, medical care, and
Bullrider
8/2/20 10:24am
Problem is that many of the kids don't value the education they receive. They
LaserCoug
8/2/20 9:32am
Replace college athletics with comp teams
ExitStageLeft
8/2/20 9:52am
This was my suggestion a couple of weeks ago. As the father of a Pac 10 school
Tarbo
8/2/20 9:23am
Athletes are also paying a price.
SweetBabyG
8/2/20 9:47am
Athletes have to get good grades to graduate?
No touching
8/2/20 10:25am
This is absolutely true especially for smaller schools or Olympic sports.
mkg
8/2/20 10:42am
I don't think the NCAA is hurting them. I also don't think the players are wrong
shoganai
8/2/20 9:24am
They’re not the primary creators though
reddead
8/2/20 9:41am
Then the market will decide what they are worth, just like any other job.
SweetBabyG
8/2/20 9:51am
Yeah... no.
Mitty
8/2/20 10:30pm
The problem is one sport (Football) funds 95% of the other sports
compcoug
8/2/20 10:46am
Entitlement mentality is a very destructive thing.
Forzaitalia
8/2/20 12:19pm
It’s destroying our country at this very moment.
Gerald-DeGroot
8/2/20 11:42pm
Be more woke. Just because these athletes get a very expensive and very
Gerald-DeGroot
8/2/20 2:51pm
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