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Did you play college athletics on a scholarship?

 

I played D1 college football at Colorado State University without a scholarship. I was able to enjoy less perks than scholarship athletes did, but got to take all the abuse and was fortunate enough to get to pay for it all too. We had athletes that couldn't pass a drug test, and athletes studying for law school. It depended on how hard the player was wiling to work and what goals they intended to get out of it in the end.

 

One thing to remember about a decent amount of college athletes is that without athletics they wouldn't even get an opportunity to go to college because they didn't have the grade to get in, the means to pay for it, or the brain to finish it. A 4.2 second 40 yard dash gets alot of your crappy high school grades overlooked and the figure out how to get you on campus. The athlete needs to be smart enough to try and exploit the advantages his 4.2 second 40 yard dash got him while the NCAA is trying to exploit his physical skills.

 

You are given something in exchange for skills, just like a job. As a college athlete you often have access to alot of extra help from tutors and such at no extra expense to you. If you aren't smart enough to try and exploit so that is your own fault.

 

Maybe some schools pick your classes, but in my experience they often helped you figure out how to take the classes you needed to work toward your degree. Sometimes that meant leaving practice early a couple days a week. Sometime that meant working with tutors. Sometimes that meant having to bust arse across campus to try and get to practice on time or showing up just a few minutes late.

 

Maybe you played 5 years of D1 football or the like at a big program and they dictated your life to you, but I am willing to attest that what I dealt with at a mid-tier school school that was top 25 ranked around the time I was there, that wasn't my experience. I would not call it slavery in the least. Do some things need to be address in college athletics? Absolutely. To call it slavery is a huge stretch.

 

While I agree 100 percent that to call it slavery is a huge stretch and I am in no way saying it is even close to slavery. What I am saying is that the ncaa created this mess by not allowing these athletes to make money while in school. But the ncaa wants to make the money off of them instead. That's the problem.

Not just a huge stretch, not even in the same zip code.

 

 

Scholarships are OFFERED and then accepted. Not one person in the history of athletics has been forced into a scholarship.

 

EVER.

 

Tens of thousands of student athletes every year compete without a scholarship and would GLADLY subject themselves to The "slavery" of a FREE EDUCATION.

 

When they agreed to the scholarship, they agreed to the rules.

 

What the school makes off of them is IRRELEVANT. The money DOES cause corruption. That is indisputable.

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Did you play college athletics on a scholarship?

 

I played D1 college football at Colorado State University without a scholarship. I was able to enjoy less perks than scholarship athletes did, but got to take all the abuse and was fortunate enough to get to pay for it all too. We had athletes that couldn't pass a drug test, and athletes studying for law school. It depended on how hard the player was wiling to work and what goals they intended to get out of it in the end.

 

One thing to remember about a decent amount of college athletes is that without athletics they wouldn't even get an opportunity to go to college because they didn't have the grade to get in, the means to pay for it, or the brain to finish it. A 4.2 second 40 yard dash gets alot of your crappy high school grades overlooked and the figure out how to get you on campus. The athlete needs to be smart enough to try and exploit the advantages his 4.2 second 40 yard dash got him while the NCAA is trying to exploit his physical skills.

 

You are given something in exchange for skills, just like a job. As a college athlete you often have access to alot of extra help from tutors and such at no extra expense to you. If you aren't smart enough to try and exploit so that is your own fault.

 

Maybe some schools pick your classes, but in my experience they often helped you figure out how to take the classes you needed to work toward your degree. Sometimes that meant leaving practice early a couple days a week. Sometime that meant working with tutors. Sometimes that meant having to bust arse across campus to try and get to practice on time or showing up just a few minutes late.

 

Maybe you played 5 years of D1 football or the like at a big program and they dictated your life to you, but I am willing to attest that what I dealt with at a mid-tier school school that was top 25 ranked around the time I was there, that wasn't my experience. I would not call it slavery in the least. Do some things need to be address in college athletics? Absolutely. To call it slavery is a huge stretch.

 

While I agree 100 percent that to call it slavery is a huge stretch and I am in no way saying it is even close to slavery. What I am saying is that the ncaa created this mess by not allowing these athletes to make money while in school. But the ncaa wants to make the money off of them instead. That's the problem.
Not just a huge stretch, not even in the same zip code.

 

 

Scholarships are OFFERED and then accepted. Not one person in the history of athletics has been forced into a scholarship.

 

EVER.

 

Tens of thousands of student athletes every year compete without a scholarship and would GLADLY subject themselves to The "slavery" of a FREE EDUCATION.

 

When they agreed to the scholarship, they agreed to the rules.

 

What the school makes off of them is IRRELEVANT. The money DOES cause corruption. That is indisputable.

are you a recruit or work in athletics?

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And meanwhile... the UofA raised/collected donations at a new record pace, 1.3 BILLION $$$'s last year... Where has all this $$$ gone???...

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So I missed the whole charge??? Sorry I dont watch sports at all. Only thing I got is that someone is a slave? Fill me in please

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Someone else makes $$ off of your work, even if you are compensated an agreed amount = slave. We are all slaves, lol.

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