re: Had an interesting conversation with a former SEC football player

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Who in their right mind would rather their family struggle to pay the bills and put food on the table, than to take perfectly legal money and risk being ineligible/sanctions for your school.

I could never blame the player for doing that.

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Wow, since you put it like that I'm on board.


College students of today and yesterday foot the bill for these players. Tuition has tripled, fees for everything under the sun always getting increased. Joe Blow student has to take out crazy loans to get through school. D1 football player gets a special lunch hall with all the free food they can possibly eat, a monthly cash stipend, special tutors for free to either a) help them learn b) write their papers for them c) take their online tests d) suck them off from time to time e) coordinate w/ academic staff how to keep your lazy arse eligible

Then there's the scholarship itself and the pell grant extra cash if you came from a poor enough family and then a little spending cash from the right booster.

College is when you're supposed to figure out how to live within reason, to budget and work hard and make things work out. Juggle classses, studying, a job, maybe two or an odd job here and there and a social life.

I don't have much sympathy for a fella that always has his hand out asking for more and more. Not a single academic student on any campus in America gets a $100 handshake after acing a test or writing a compelling essay or doing something really interesting in a research project.

America get your priorities right.