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NCAA Athlete Stipend
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:41 pm
How much should it be?
The only person I know who got a stipend was for an internship after college where his room/board/transportation was provided, and he got $150 a week.
Because the athletes aren't allowed to get part time jobs and aren't allowed to get money in any way unless their parents give it to them, and many of them have poor parents, not all of them are 5 star guys with bag men slipping envelopes under uncle's door, if they get a stipend, how much should it be?
$75 a week? $150 a week? I'm considering their dorm and books and classes and transportation fees and student fees etc are already paid for.
You don't want it to be too much because small schools wouldn't be able to afford it.
Has there already been discussion on this? Am I Kaiser Wilhelm?
The only person I know who got a stipend was for an internship after college where his room/board/transportation was provided, and he got $150 a week.
Because the athletes aren't allowed to get part time jobs and aren't allowed to get money in any way unless their parents give it to them, and many of them have poor parents, not all of them are 5 star guys with bag men slipping envelopes under uncle's door, if they get a stipend, how much should it be?
$75 a week? $150 a week? I'm considering their dorm and books and classes and transportation fees and student fees etc are already paid for.
You don't want it to be too much because small schools wouldn't be able to afford it.
Has there already been discussion on this? Am I Kaiser Wilhelm?
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Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:45 pm to deeprig9
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:46 pm to deeprig9
Full scholarship and costs of attendance
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:46 pm to deeprig9
Won't happen. You pay Football players you got to pay everybody. With IX that means women, too. The smaller schools simply could not afford it. 
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:47 pm to DawgsLife
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The smaller schools simply could not afford it.
Only about 10 schools could afford it, or they would have to use taxpayer money/other students' tuition to cover it. It's completely unrealistic and just a terrible idea in general
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:48 pm to darkhorse
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ZERO!!@ none... zilch!
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:51 pm to DawgsLife
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Won't happen. You pay Football players you got to pay everybody. With IX that means women, too. The smaller schools simply could not afford it.
How many scholarship athletes does a small school even have? I could see how the big schools could be pushing a million a year with a small stipend, which is a drop in the bucket.
But a small school such as.... a poor school like Kennesaw State, or Georgia Southern, how many athletic scholarships do they actually have?
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:54 pm to DawgsLife
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The smaller schools simply could not afford it.
yeah ok yet meanwhile the LSU Law School had no trouble giving me a full ride at the same time Patrick Peterson was playing at LSU. But he couldn't get the same deal I got
This post was edited on 8/10/13 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:55 pm to deeprig9
That's a bad example, let's make it 1-A.
Give me an example of a small 1-A school that would be destroyed by a mandate to pay all scholarship athletes a small stipend.
Give me an example of a small 1-A school that would be destroyed by a mandate to pay all scholarship athletes a small stipend.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:55 pm to deeprig9
I think it needs to be something like pay for housing, meals, health insurance, books and school materials (including laptop) then give them 400-600$/month
Including tuition and fees into that, you are looking at about 60k$ per student. I feel like that is pretty reasonable all together and hard to argue against
Including tuition and fees into that, you are looking at about 60k$ per student. I feel like that is pretty reasonable all together and hard to argue against
This post was edited on 8/10/13 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:56 pm to GenesChin
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I think it needs to be something like pay for housing, meals, health insurance, books and school materials (including laptop) then give them 400-600$/month
i'm down for that
This post was edited on 8/10/13 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:56 pm to GenesChin
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I think it needs to be something like pay for housing, meals, health insurance, books and school materials (including laptop) then give them 400-600$/month
I would add the school meal plan to that and give them $75 a week or $300 a month.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:58 pm to deeprig9
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and give them $75 a week or $300 a month.
Should be at least double. No reason they shouldn't have spending money for the bar or new kicks or a PS4 or what have you.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 3:59 pm to theenemy
What about 160,000 per year per football player?
Posted on 8/10/13 at 4:02 pm to theenemy
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Most get around $1,400.00 to $1,600.00 a month if they live off campus. (based on cost of living of that city)
That link was a decent read, thanks for posting.
I am still skeptical of the guy's numbers, and how it works outside of Baylor and Fayetteville.
Would it be much simpler to just give them a stipend than all that mumbo jumbo in the article?
Posted on 8/10/13 at 4:02 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Just keep it at 400 and have the school open accounts with all the area bars to cover player drinks. Hookers and blow to be paid through said account as well
This post was edited on 8/10/13 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 8/10/13 at 4:03 pm to Bama Bird
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Only about 10 schools could afford it, or they would have to use taxpayer money/other students' tuition to cover it. It's completely unrealistic and just a terrible idea in general
Abba-so-lootely!
Posted on 8/10/13 at 4:04 pm to deeprig9
Ummm.... People need to realize that they are currently getting money.
I was an NCAA athlete. Got money for groceries (on top of meals provided on campus), housing, books, tuition, clothes. It's more than a fair deal.
This talk of paying is driven by the media who want to destroy the NCAA and create a new paradigm that allows them to make more money.
I was an NCAA athlete. Got money for groceries (on top of meals provided on campus), housing, books, tuition, clothes. It's more than a fair deal.
This talk of paying is driven by the media who want to destroy the NCAA and create a new paradigm that allows them to make more money.
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