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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
The issue for me is about fair compensation. These universities make billions, yes billions off of these athletes who are paid in scholarships. That's brutal if you ask me
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Yeah, that's tough for me, too. But, these guys basically get a free higher education, something no one else does. They take no advantage of what they are being paid, and want payment in another form. One could possibly claim that they are doing it to themselves, working for free since they choose 'basketweaving 101' to 'major' in. If they don't want payment in the form being offered...do they have a right to demand payment in another form (cold hard cash?) while giving up the benefits of the other method of payment? I'm tempted to say 'sure, here's payment in monetary terms, but you are not a student at [whatever school].