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re: New bill to allow athletes to get paid.
Posted on 2/5/21 at 7:18 am to BFANLC
Posted on 2/5/21 at 7:18 am to BFANLC
They do get paid, with an education among other things. Comes out to be about 350k or more when it's said and done. The thing about it is most of these "student athletes" nowadays don't come for an education, only for the rent and food to be paid till they get drafted, taking BS classes. If they are looking for more compensation, then the fanbases will dwindle.
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Posted on 2/5/21 at 3:47 pm to dirty bastard
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Comes out to be about 350k or more when it's said and done.
It is significantly more money than that.
For one: The University is taking all of the monetary risk on you. One heart condition or injury and now you have a free ride since most Universities honor their scholarship even if you can't play.
For two: How much money do you think it costs someone to have private classes with Dan Mullen to play Quarterback? Or Kirby to teach Safety? For an entire year? We're talking hundreds of thousands if not a million dollars.
Third: Remember that the University provides you a stadium to play in as well, along with all of the facilities they enjoy.
Whether or not they come for the education, it is still something that is being offered and helps propel people in poverty into the middle class at a minimum. An education from Georgia, Vanderbilt, Florida, Alabama -- any SEC school is almost priceless, especially when all you have to do is play a sport with an inside chance to get into the NFL.
People are confusing compensation with pay. They are heavily compensated.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 11:47 am to dirty bastard
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Comes out to be about 350k or more
way, way more than that. $87,500/year would cover no more than tuition, room and board, and food (maybe not even all of that) a lot of places. Let's just take a standard OOS tuition cost at a school like Alabama. Out of state tuition, alone, is about $30k/year. Add another $15k for rent, $7-10k for food, and you're already close to $60k. Now add on the trainers, medical care, facilities, nutritionists, equipment, clothes, travel expenses, lodging on road games, tutors, etc, and you're probably closer to $200k/year per player at the bigger P5 schools.
That also doesn't even include the difficult to quantify value of the platform they're given at no cost to them.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 11:49 am
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