SoFlaBear said:
Uthaithani said:
packawana said:
Bear19 said:
We should allow these types of transfers to only non Pac-12 teams. I don't get why we don't do that.
Can we please just acknowledge that we don't care that these are students who should have academic control over their future?
Sure, I'll acknowledge that. Since we paid for his degree. So, no, you don't get "freedom to do whatever you please" when someone else is paying the tab!
This entitlement attitude - and acceptance of the entitlement attitude - sucks. You people making excuses for this entitlement will see this bite you in the arse. And I'm going to be laughing from some other country whose society doesn't share your lame belief system that'll be eating your lunch in 20 years.
Entitlement??? A school provides education, room, and board. In exchange, a student engages in a risky activity with lifetime debilitating effects. The school pays the student nothing beyond what was previously mentioned, and reaps the benefits of ticket sales, merchandise sales, radio broadcast revenues, and television broadcast revenues.
"Exploitative" is the word I think you meant to write.
You have to be extremely educated (and probably a millenial SJW) to say something this stupid.
Less than 1% of D1 athletes earn money professionally. The monetary value of scholarships can exceed $100,000 annually -- tuition, housing, food, travel, resources -- even more so at some schools. This investment, at no cost to the individual, provides him/her with a college education that can set them up for a lifetime of financial and professional success that they may not have experienced had they not gotten a scholarship and possibly not gone to college at all. It is incredibly stupid and moronic -- and most importantly, demonstrably FALSE -- to say NCAA athletes are "exploited". The investment may often turn into a monetary value that is exponentially higher than the actual cost of the investment (that of course is free to them)
A small percentage who are unable to earn money off their likeness is the travesty of the NCAA -- not the fact that they're not paying them a stipend or salary.