Quote:They have a job: playing football and earning millions of dollars for the university, the bowl system, and the coaches.   Now they'd like to get paid their fair share of that money.

"Their fair share?"  Come on, man, it's already a travesty that some of these athletes even get to attend the university and get an education in the first place.  With no athletic ability, they'd be on the nearest McDonald's schedule for the rest of their live because they, in most cases, have coasted off of their abilities rather than work hard like, say, the refugees from other countries I see every day who barely speak English yet work their tails off for scholarships despite their poverty and the language barrier.

 

The free college education is MORE than payment enough, and it is MORE than what more deserving people who take out loans that they pay for for the rest of their lives get (if they manage to attend college at all).  The university should have the right to make money off of them.  If they were smart, they'd get a useful degree instead of an easy one so they could have life after the average 5 year career of an NFL player.

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