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Originally Posted by PIMking
The large majority of these students wouldn't qualify academically to attend any of these schools.
sorry, they don't deserve to be paid. They can live in the dorms for free for all four year if they choose. If they want to move into an apartment after their Frosh year, they get a stipend from the school for living expenses. That being said if you get a 1k stipend to live on for a month don't go out and get an apartment that will cost you $700/mo.
They also get free books, tuition, tutors, dental, vision, and medical. Plus every athlete can go to the athletic building and get dinner every day of the week.
Here at Alabama the school forces one to put $300 on their student ID card every semester (which would be covered under their scholarship) that they can use to buy food at the student center, or the numerous places to eat on campus.
If they live in the dorm, they don't have electricity, water, cable, or internet bills.
They bitch and moan about not being able to get a job which we all know that the mass majority of them wouldn't get a job if they had a chance.
They also qualify for student pell grants which do not have to be paid back.
While they make the schools BILLIONS (big schools) the students that are normal students have to pay tuition, and for all the other fees and a very large majority have a crappy min wage job to buy $1 totinos pizza's.
the students who become alumni who wait years to get tickets and pay out the ass for school are the ones who are being abused.
These kids don't want to go to college for free than they can keep their ass's in their little towns all while being barely able to count to 20, 19 if they're missing a toe.
They get enough, if they push to be paid then they need to kill college sports as scholarship sports all together.
It only takes one kid from a family to get them out of the situation that their family is in. If they took that free degree that is given to them because they can catch a damn ball instead of playing the woe is me card they would be much better off.
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How about we offer that to any worker instead of just to athletes? Athletics has little to nothing to do with academics. University Athletics is also technically a cartel that can control wages. It's literally no different than all the plumbing companies getting together and saying instead of wages, they will pay in tuition and board. They get a free tuition, that should be good enough, no?