This is absolutely true especially for smaller schools or Olympic sports.

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Aug 2, 2020
10:42:29am

mkg Playmaker

This is absolutely true especially for smaller schools or Olympic sports.

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mkg

Bio page: mkg
Joined: Aug 21, 2003
Last login: May 16, 2024
Total posts: 2,236 (3 FO)

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Time

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.

8/2/20 11:42pm

Be more woke. Just because these athletes get a very expensive and very

8/2/20 2:51pm

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