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re: How much monthly allowance does a student athlete receive?
Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:51 pm to MrAUTigers
Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:51 pm to MrAUTigers
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If you had somebody buy you one meal a day, could you get by on $5,400 a year?
Could you not?
When everything else school wise is payed for?
Some grants are larger than that amount as well.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:53 pm to BlueIndian420
My scholarship to LSU Law covered more than Patrick Peterson's
the system is broken
the system is broken
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:01 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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My scholarship to LSU Law covered more than Patrick Peterson's
the system is broken
Would Peterson qualify for the scholly you got?
Would you qualify for the salary Peterson has?
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:03 pm to MrAUTigers
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BS. Full ride scholarship athletes get one meal a day. One meal. Not all of these kids families can afford to give them pocket money, money for clothes, money for other essentials. Those kids deserve some money in their pockets.
I'm not saying they don't deserve some money.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:03 pm to DaleDenton
How the frick is anything broken.....air the crimes against humanity!!!!!
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:04 pm to BlueIndian420
As a former player it depends.
If you live on campus you can get pell grant money and a clothing allowance, as well as any meal stipends throughout the season.
If you live on campus you get an off campus check which is basically the cost of room and board and dining in the form of a check. It's meant to go to your living expenses, but what all my teammates would do was rent a house with 3 or 4 other guys and then pocket the difference. It was a significant sum of money every month, at least $1000.
If you live on campus you can get pell grant money and a clothing allowance, as well as any meal stipends throughout the season.
If you live on campus you get an off campus check which is basically the cost of room and board and dining in the form of a check. It's meant to go to your living expenses, but what all my teammates would do was rent a house with 3 or 4 other guys and then pocket the difference. It was a significant sum of money every month, at least $1000.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:05 pm to BayouBengals03
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quote: BS. Full ride scholarship athletes get one meal a day. One meal. Not all of these kids families can afford to give them pocket money, money for clothes, money for other essentials. Those kids deserve some money in their pockets. I'm not saying they don't deserve some money.
I don't know how shite works at LSU but athletes at auburn had their own damn cafeteria when I was there.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:05 pm to BamainCFL
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Pell Grants are like $5k a year max. $450/month max is not a lot for someone who doesn't have time to work a job.
The only time you don't have time to work is during the season, August-December. Plenty of time to work in January-July.
I worked part time January-April and 80 hours a week for a minor league baseball team May-July. Lots of other guys did too.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:07 pm to Draconian Sanctions
From the Northwestern decision:
"The grant-in-aid for the players’ tuition, fees and books is not provided directly to them in the form of a stipend as is sometimes done with room and board. Because the Employer’s football team has a rule requiring its players to live on campus during their first two years, these players live in a dorm room and are provided a meal card, which allows them to buy food at the school cafeteria.
In contrast, the players who are upperclassmen can elect to live off campus, and scholarship players are provided a monthly stipend totaling between $1,200 and $1,600 to cover their living expenses. Under current NCAA regulations, the Employer is prohibited from offering its players additional compensation . . .
"The grant-in-aid for the players’ tuition, fees and books is not provided directly to them in the form of a stipend as is sometimes done with room and board. Because the Employer’s football team has a rule requiring its players to live on campus during their first two years, these players live in a dorm room and are provided a meal card, which allows them to buy food at the school cafeteria.
In contrast, the players who are upperclassmen can elect to live off campus, and scholarship players are provided a monthly stipend totaling between $1,200 and $1,600 to cover their living expenses. Under current NCAA regulations, the Employer is prohibited from offering its players additional compensation . . .
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:07 pm to MrAUTigers
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BS. Full ride scholarship athletes get one meal a day. One meal. Not all of these kids families can afford to give them pocket money, money for clothes, money for other essentials. Those kids deserve some money in their pockets.
This is a bunch of BS.
At TCU if you lived on campus and were on scholarship you had full access to all the dining halls from open to close, and the training tables as well during the week.
If you lived off campus you got an off campus check that was meant to cover housing, food, and utilities. If you chose to spend that money on other things, not the school or athletic department's fault.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:12 pm to goldennugget
Here is what I got as a walk on:
-$15 food stipend after every home game
-$36 food stipend per day on days we didn't practice during two-a-days and also on days where we had to practice but school was closed(i.e. Labor Day, Fall Break, Thanksgiving Break, Christmas Break)
-$250 per semester clothing allowance. A lot of people would buy an expensive pair of shoes at the mall, get two receipts, give one receipt to compliance then return the shoes and pocket the money.
-Traveling allowance during Thanksgiving/Christmas Break. We got $.50 per mile we lived from campus. I only lived 17 miles away so I only got $17 but a lot of guys got $200 or more, would carpool with others who lived in that area and pocket the difference.
-$36 per day food stipend on bowl game trips. We were in LA for the Rose Bowl for 9 days so 36 x 9 = $324
Scholarship guys got all of the above plus more with their off campus checks.
-$15 food stipend after every home game
-$36 food stipend per day on days we didn't practice during two-a-days and also on days where we had to practice but school was closed(i.e. Labor Day, Fall Break, Thanksgiving Break, Christmas Break)
-$250 per semester clothing allowance. A lot of people would buy an expensive pair of shoes at the mall, get two receipts, give one receipt to compliance then return the shoes and pocket the money.
-Traveling allowance during Thanksgiving/Christmas Break. We got $.50 per mile we lived from campus. I only lived 17 miles away so I only got $17 but a lot of guys got $200 or more, would carpool with others who lived in that area and pocket the difference.
-$36 per day food stipend on bowl game trips. We were in LA for the Rose Bowl for 9 days so 36 x 9 = $324
Scholarship guys got all of the above plus more with their off campus checks.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:21 pm to goldennugget
Full scholarship athletes aren't starving, eating ramen noodles, going around in worn out clothes and shoes. They get enough from the school and parents, and if parents are poor, they get financial aid. They get free books, tuition, fees, housing, health care, fitness training for free. They get plenty.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:23 pm to weadjust
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Weed and Booze
That and X box stuff they don't steal
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:25 pm to Cheese Grits
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That and X box stuff they don't steal
Funny story about XBOX, I lived with some scholarship players and one of them wasted his off campus check on an XBOX360 and games, didn't have enough for food for the rest of the month so the guy was knocking on my door every night asking for money so he could get food.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:28 pm to RT1941
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Full scholarship athletes aren't starving, eating ramen noodles, going around in worn out clothes and shoes. They get enough from the school and parents, and if parents are poor, they get financial aid. They get free books, tuition, fees, housing, health care, fitness training for free. They get plenty.
Exactly.
Plenty of their classmates are working shitty part time jobs with shitty hours for minimum wage just to be able to get close to what some athletes are claiming isn't enough for them...(tuition, books, fees, housing, food, etc)
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:30 pm to MrAUTigers
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BS. Full ride scholarship athletes get one meal a day.
I call BS on this!
They used to feed us all the time. After meals they would give us 4 PB&J sandwiches in addition to the meals and these things were like XXXXL PB&J's. I would say they were cramming maybe 6,000 - 8,000 calories a day in us. Hungry was one thing we were not.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:33 pm to MrAUTigers
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Yeah, $450 a month sure goes a long way.
Yes it does.
Let's say I spend 60 on gas a month.
and 100 on groceries..
$290 is plenty for whatever someone might need.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:35 pm to RT1941
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Full scholarship athletes aren't starving, eating ramen noodles, going around in worn out clothes and shoes. They get enough from the school and parents, and if parents are poor, they get financial aid. They get free books, tuition, fees, housing, health care, fitness training for free. They get plenty.
Exactly. If you want to feel bad feel bad for kids that play D2 and don't get full rides.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:00 pm to MrAUTigers
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Yeah, $450 a month sure goes a long way.
If you had somebody buy you one meal a day, could you get by on $5,400 a year?
I worked my way through college and left college with a whopping 9k in student loans after 4 years. My parents could afford it but I did it myself anyway. Guess what, if I could have had $400 a month clean and clear after everything was paid for by the school, and no bullshite top of the line stuff, I would have been in heaven.
They have access to the best facilities, nutritionists, strength and conditioning trainers, food and top of the line dorms if they choose to stay there. I don't feel sorry for them.
As for the Title 9 argument, I found it really funny when some guy on tv said that they needed to pay players and just do away with title 9. Well, you know what? That would probably piss off a lot of schools that have spent close to a billion dollars each over the last 40 years if not a higher dollar amount.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:03 pm to Warfarer
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just do away with title 9.
THat will never ever ever ever ever happen. Ever.
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