re: How much monthly allowance does a student athlete receive?

My scholarship to LSU Law covered more than Patrick Peterson's

the system is broken

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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.

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I'm not saying they don't deserve some money.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Weed and Booze

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That and X box stuff they don't steal

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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.

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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)

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Yeah, $450 a month sure goes a long way.

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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.

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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?

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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.