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Link all you fricking want. There isn't a team on a campus that has 40 hour weeks. It's a damn joke. They are liars. Just like Arian Foster was a liar when he said he couldn't afford to eat.

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EDUCATION 

Here's The Insane Amount Of Time Student-Athletes Spend On Practice

Peter Jacobs Jan. 27, 2015, 11:44 AM52,639 6

?AP Photo/Gerry BroomeFormer UNC football player Devon Ramsay is one of two former student-athletes filing a lawsuit against the school and the NCAA.

Collegiate student-athletes may spend more than 40 hours a week practicing, leaving little time to keep up with academic commitments, according to a recent lawsuit against the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and the NCAA, the organization that governs college sports.

Filed by two former UNC student-athletes, the lawsuit claims that they were deprived of a "meaningful education" while representing the school on the field. The lawsuit — first reported by The Washington Post — follows a scathing investigative report released October 2014, detailing a decades-long academic scandal that predominantly affected UNC student-athletes.

The scandal centers around so-called "paper classes" — which typically never met and only required a final paper — that were offered through the African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department. These classes were explicity utilized by members of both UNC academic and athletic departments to help athletes achieve a minimum GPA to maintain their NCAA eligibility, according to former Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein's report.

Officially, the NCAA restricts student-athletes' in-season practice to 20 hours per week, or four hours per day. Many student-athletes, however, reported that they practice at least 30 hours a week on average, with some sports reporting weekly practice commitments of more than 40 hours, according to a 2011 NCAA survey cited in the UNC lawsuit.

Here were the weekly average hours student-athletes reported they spent:

?Via UNC Lawsuit

The UNC students' lawsuit alsocites a separate NCAA survey, from 2006, which found that student-athletes spent an average of 45 hours per week on athletics. The 2006 survey also breaks down how many hours student-athletes spend in practice each day:

?Via UNC Lawsuit

One potential explanation for the popularity of UNC's "paper classes" is that the amount of time the school's athletics commitments took up prevented them from handling a full course load.

"If these young men and women are going to come in and put in 30, 40, 50 hours, the least we can give them is a set of circumstances academically that really allows them to benefit educationally from what they have put into the athletics context," Robert Orr, one of the lawyers representing the UNC students filing the lawsuit, told Business Insider.

The disconnect between the NCAA's stated policy and what student-athletes actually experience may be due to the organization's definition of what constitutes a practice. Various activities — such as "voluntary" student-led work outs — do not qualify for the 20-hour rule.

Here's how the lawsuit describes the potential problem:

The 20-hour rule itself is also rife with loopholes. Administrative meetings, weight-lifting, conditioning, film study, and activities incidental to participation, such as taping, visits to the trainer, and rehabilitation, do not count towards the 20-hour limit. Nor do "voluntary" activities where no coach is present. Game days count as three total hours, even though they often require travel and hours of pre- and post-game meetinllgs and activities.

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Arian told a lot of tall tales. It was made worse by the fact that many fans knew his dad had a very good job.

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Insane amount of time student athetes spend on practice

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