So just pay them and that'll solve everything, right? What about paying golf, tennis or wrestling student-athetes? What about paying student-athletes at schools like Murray State, Texas State or Utah State? I'll wait...
First of all, we need to take Title IX and throw it in the bushes. 2nd, this is America, and if you have a skillset that generates revenue then you need to be compensated. This is not about D II or D III. This is about calling something an amateur sport where the overseers make 3-6 mil a year and the workers generate the plantation 16-90 mil in revenue annually, all without fair compensation
This shyt would not fly for no other corporation or no other group of people. As long as the participants are mostly negroes, we will continue to see these kids exploited to some degree.
And don't give me that spill about them receiving a "free" education. Nothing is free and that scholarship money for athletics has already been allocated years in advance via other revenue/money streams because you always get a strong rate of return on the investment
Besides, those kids are brought there to learn on the field, not the classroom.
It is an arduous task to spend 40-50 hours weekly on the field or court dealing with practice/meetings/workouts/etc, and still expected to maintain your coursework and GPA. That's why many schools turn a blind eye to athletes not going to class and it is expected that the professors pass said athletes with little to no resistance.
Besides, how do you think these so called business schools, and state of the art libraries/student centers are built?
(yea right). Hell didn't this cat have to go to a prep school before even enrolling at O$U? My bad, quoted u by mistake
Whoa there boss, I never said I didn't appreciate it.