Quote:I hate this 'people would kill for this opportunity' crap. If you have a talent with the potential to make money, its not luck when people will help you maximize that in exchange for a chunk of the spoils. This free education isn't a gift from a benevolent college, its the cheapest thing they can offer for the services of a football player.

 

College ball is a full time job. Although a tiny, tiny % of football players manage to do real degrees (and I admire the heck out of them) one of the reasons many others don't is because its not reasonable to expect any person, especially one who has nowhere near the academic ability to do any sort of degree, to work that many hours in a physically demanding job and then do a college work.

 

Pay the men what the deserve and then its up to them what they do with the money. As a professional, I work for money, if someone offered me a job where the remuneration was 'an opportunity', I'd tell them where to stick it.

 

What?  There are plenty of people with physically demanding jobs who take on a full college workload, some of them MORESO than ball players.  There are people all over the world who would kill for the opportunity to have a college education paid for, and it's ridiculous that athletes waste it.  It's their fault they have eighth grade reading levels--how dare people blame the school for the kid placing a higher value on athletics.

 

It's a ridiculous system.  What needs to happen is a D-league for the NFL where these people can go try their luck making it on their athletic merits alone, since they're squandering the oportunity to get a high quality education that could open doors for them when they blow out their knees or don't last on an NFL roster.  Give it to people who will appreciate it.

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