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So john catipari is due $56 million over the next 7 years
Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:44 am
Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:44 am
And the Players get zip 
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Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:44 am to jb4
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And the Players get zip
They usually get paid after about a year at UK...
Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:44 am to jb4
They players don't get paid one year then get paid more.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:45 am to Ole Colonel 27
Well his wife does make them brownies on their birthday. I wouldn't call that zip!
Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:49 am to jb4
You really think Kentucky players don't get paid? 
Posted on 3/23/17 at 9:52 am to jb4
It's basically a one year internship for the players
Posted on 3/23/17 at 10:39 am to jb4
Free college ed, room, food, travel, training, state of art facilities.....yeah they don't get shite. Ask the other students at Kentucky or their parents what it's like to pay for school.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 10:49 am to jb4
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And the Players get zip
They get a college scholarship. Not everyone, even at Kentucky, has pro basketball in their future and their spot could easily be taken for another jabroni. So those guys have no market value.
As for the one-and-dones, well, they get a showcase for their talents. Consider it an internship. They're getting paid enough and probably getting lots under the table in many cases.
I would have loved to have gone to college on scholarship instead of having to simultaneously work two part-time jobs and pay my own way.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 11:02 am to jb4
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So john catipari is due $56 million over the next 7 years- And the Players get zip
You do realize how college athletics works, right?
Posted on 3/23/17 at 11:03 am to jb4
That's a lot of money for 1* title
Posted on 3/23/17 at 11:03 am to jb4
If this really offends you, protest and never watch collegiate sports again.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 11:07 am to NYCAuburn
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They usually get paid after about a year at UK...
Posted on 3/23/17 at 11:17 am to jb4
Ah, so you're one of those "players should get paid" fellas huh? If they are good enough, they will. Otherwise, they should enjoy their free education, and take advantage of it.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 12:12 pm to jb4
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And the Players get zip
Free education, coaching, housing, meal plan, national exposure, visibility....yeah man, they get nothing
Posted on 3/23/17 at 2:00 pm to LouisvilleKat
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Well his wife does make them brownies on their birthday. I wouldn't call that zip!
Sounds like illegal benefits to me.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 2:18 pm to jb4
you just finding out the NCAA doesn't allow players to get paid?
Posted on 3/23/17 at 2:28 pm to jb4
They get treated like kings and have the best path to the NBA. But those poor, poor players get nothing.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 2:37 pm to Korin
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and have the best path to the NBA
The best path to the NBA is talent. It doesn't matter what school you go to.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 3:44 pm to jb4
That's a lot of money to squeak by Wichita state every year
Posted on 3/23/17 at 3:49 pm to jb4
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And the Players get zip
If you're going to make this argument, you are much better off going with football. The basketball players that are good don't even go to school for 2 full semesters and then get 3 or 4 year guaranteed contracts from the NBA. If they don't like it, they can play in Europe for a year and get drafted. The football players are the ones who really get screwed because they have to stay for 3 years and there's not really another option.
That being said, I was in Tuscaloosa recently and after seeing all the new hotels, student housing, greek houses, condos, restaurants, etc.. I can say with absolute certainty that Nick Saban is extremely underpaid for what he does and I would imagine the money Kentucky and Lexington has made since Calipari started coaching would prove he is underpaid as well.
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