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Posted on 2/21/24 at 3:17 pm to lockthevaught
Hopefully you realize a very small percentage of college players make any pro roster.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:01 pm to Ellis_Hugh
My daughter went to UGA and took 5 years to graduate (changed her major twice) with me paying out of state tuition. This was 15 years ago and I put out about 200K total. For athletes and fans not to consider a scholarship's dollar value has always pissed me off, it is worth a lot.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:02 pm to pankReb
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pankReb
Getting dragged again
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:08 pm to Tideroller
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My daughter went to UGA and took 5 years to graduate (changed her major twice) with me paying out of state tuition. This was 15 years ago and I put out about 200K total. For athletes and fans not to consider a scholarship's dollar value has always pissed me off, it is worth a lot.
Man, out of state tuition must have sucked.
My wife paid her own way through UGA (25 years ago) and it was around 3-4 grand a year in-state. 40 grand a year... yikes.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:28 pm to momentoftruth87
Look who is following me around again. 
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:01 pm to DawginSC
The worst part was all her friends going for free on Hope Scholarships who were in no rush to graduate while I'm telling her to take more hours.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:09 pm to Ellis_Hugh
A scholarship is not cash nor can it be turned into cash. The rest is semantics.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:56 pm to lockthevaught
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No because most football players don't value a scholarship or an education. They just go play college football because they have to do that first to go pro.
The same could be said for just about anyone who doesn't want to work a minimum wage job. You gotta go to college to get a foot in the door.
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Just think of how many football players would skip college and go straight to the NFL if it were allowed.....
Not as many as you'd think. It's been an option in several sports. Unsurprisingly, playing college basketball and even college baseball is more popular than slaving away overseas or in the minors for the majority.
For football players, most wouldn't be able to afford the training required to make it to the NFL. For many professions, you pay to learn your trade. Football could easily be something guys paid for themselves. Even the top prospects would have trouble in such an environment.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 11:42 pm to Ellis_Hugh
Good stuff, y’all. Thanks for the replies.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 12:30 am to Ellis_Hugh
It's a payment.
If you think otherwise, ask the people who are in college and didn't get a scholarship how they are doing it. They make a payment.
If you think otherwise, ask the people who are in college and didn't get a scholarship how they are doing it. They make a payment.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 12:46 am to AUdime
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A scholarship is not cash nor can it be turned into cash. The rest is semantics.
It has a cash value, and it's not semantics.
Go ahead and tell them it's just semantics when you don't have a scholarship.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:11 am to Ellis_Hugh
The dismissal of the worth of scholarships speaks more to the undervaluing of education by certain segments of our society than it does to the alleged greed or miserliness of athletic departments.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:37 am to pankReb
No, but the needy kids can use their Pell Grant money as walking around money. Regular students use Pell grants for food and clothes but athletes don’t have to bc all of their food and most of their clothes are included in their scholarships.
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