re: Should collegiate athletes receive stipends?

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I'll say yes. Collegiate sports are like a full time job on top of classes. Not saying these kids live a woeful life by any means, but they do work hard and a lot of money is made off their backs. Obviously I agree that they have the opportunity to receive a good education in return, which is huge.

Just have the NCAA foot the bill, they're good for it.

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That's always the view I've had, i.e. sports are incredibly time-intensive and place fairly significant demands on the student-athletes. I'm not certain a stipend is the answer, for all the reasons mentioned in this thread, but I would suggest that the NCAA move to protect the scholarships of underperforming or injured players...giving them, in effect, a certain amount of 'job security.' Certain safeguards would have to be put into place to prevent athletes from gaming the system (e.g. suddenly quitting on the team so s/he can keep a full ride without the effort) but, if you're not going to pay them, it does seem fair to at least compensate them in other ways. For instance (just spit-balling here)you could allow a given athlete to take the route of an early entrant in the draft by, say, letting them quit the team with one final year of college paid gratis. I'm sure others can come up with alternative ideas along the same lines.

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A lot of it is perspective, broke to one person isn't the same to another. Many Americans think they're broke, when they're very wealthy by international standards. Anyway, I wouldn't argue this issue to death, just saying I wouldn't care if they made some extra money.

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I hear you, but living off campus we got 1,350 a month stipend. Pay 550 a month rent which put us in the best possible apartment at Lsu, which gives you 800 spending money a month. Plus any extra money we got if we went out of town for athletics. Impossible to spend that. No more is needed. It is already extra

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I hear you, but living off campus we got 1,350 a month stipend. Pay 550 a month rent which put us in the best possible apartment at Lsu, which gives you 800 spending money a month. Plus any extra money we got if we went out of town for athletics. Impossible to spend that. No more is needed. It is already extra

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Right on. You're obviously more well versed in this than I am. Wasn't aware that money was made out of town, is that an LSU thing or NCAA?

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randomways

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I agree. There could be changes made. I guess money is probably not the best answer.

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Ncaa. The coach has a choice to either pay for the meal himself or get it catered, of he can give each player a set amount of money depending on the city in which we were located. We always pushed for the money because we would always come home with extra cash

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That raises an interesting question (at least interesting for me, since I'm not clear on the answer.) Does the NCAA place certain limits on the quality of the amenities universities can legally provide? There's already a certain disparity -- some teams travel in nice planes while others have to ride rickety buses, for instance, and the quality of athletic dorms varies. But could a university, for instance, provide a 24 hour free snack bar stocked with everything a hungry athlete might desire? Or serve steak and lobster one day a week? I vaguely recall hearing that, in most circumstances, the athletes must be provided with the same quality of services/goods as the university makes available to the general population, but I'm not entirely certain I'm remembering correctly.

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That raises an interesting question (at least interesting for me, since I'm not clear on the answer.) Does the NCAA place certain limits on the quality of the amenities universities can legally provide? There's already a certain disparity -- some teams travel in nice planes while others have to ride rickety buses, for instance, and the quality of athletic dorms varies. But could a university, for instance, provide a 24 hour free snack bar stocked with everything a hungry athlete might desire? Or serve steak and lobster one day a week? I vaguely recall hearing that, in most circumstances, the athletes must be provided with the same quality of services/goods as the university makes available to the general population, but I'm not entirely certain I'm remembering correctly.

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Not really sure how that works exactly. We always stayed at nice hotels, but not the ritz or anything. Now I know when we had recruits in for official visits there were guidelines on what we could treat them to. Something along the lines of "something a reasonable college student would do"

Are you the 'norm' though lsupride87?

Just asking because a lot of kids come to LSU from very poor backgrounds/families and you don't seem to fit that profile.

For instance, you mentioned living in an apartment. Isn't that a perk for upperclassman?

I'm not doubting you, but you make it sound a lot easier than one would think.

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Are you the 'norm' though lsupride87? Just asking because a lot of kids come to LSU from very poor backgrounds/families and you don't seem to fit that profile. For instance, you mentioned living in an apartment. Isn't that a perk for upperclassman? I'm not doubting you, but you make it sound a lot easier than one would think.

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Living in an apartment is allowed for pretty much any athlete that has shown the coach he can handle school. Obviously if you have struggled in school he will prolly be less likely to allow this. However, for the most part, this is an option for almost everyone after their freshman year. As far as me being poor, no my family is not poor. Like I said, some of these athletes are using their money to kick back to their families. But to be frank, their is no amount of money you could give them to stop
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YES

If people want student athletes I get paid extra it wouldn't bother me, but the vocal ones acting like they barely got by are full of crap. That's my point

The people who would actually benefit from getting paid are the athletes who are walk ons or players in non revenue sports that don't get full rides. But nobody thinks they deserve to get paid betcha nobody actually pays to watch them

The idea of extra stipends originated with football players, no doubt about that, but of course nowadays that don't fly so all student athletes should get it. Still, its a relatively small amount of money well spent in the eyes of many.