It's college amateur sports, it's not supposed to be a minor league pro league.. These kids are playing for Universities, you know, learning institutions. Less than 2% of these kids will play in the NBA or any pro league. If they want to be entrepreneurs and get out and hustle and make some commercials or sell some merchandise I'm good with that. I'm not good with a kid getting $10 million just handed to him for playing amateur sports..
A free education is worth $100 k or more these days. That's not chicken feed. The majority of these kids would never get a college education if not for sports and an education is much more valuable than just being handed some money they absolutely have no idea how to handle.
I honestly don't know why Universities didn't fight this harder and say they're an amateur organization and they're not going to let them just accept payments.
so why do the coaches and universities get to make hundreds of millions of dollars and the kids making that money for them get nothing but an education that many don't want in the first place but it's forced upon them if they want to play? i only went to college because my parents wanted me too and i dropped out. they have to go to classes to play sports, how f&cked up is that? you don't get paid, the coaches and schools bring in hundreds of millions and kids forced to go to class? and giving the education to an athlete is basically free for the college, they just put another chair in the room and the kid gets free education, costs them a few hundred dollars to add the kid. sports dept pays for the room and board. btu i'd guess most would prefer just to play and not have to learn about things that have nothing to do with their career so saying they get $100k education means nothing and it only costs school a few hundred dollar. and an $100k history of french lit education doesn;t get you a job. degrees don't mean you'll get a job. most likely AI will do most thigns a human can so most jobs int he future will be serving people and making food.
so don't give me they need an education bulsh&4T, my friends who make the most money in life don't have college educations. they got connections and family members so having an education just gets you stuck in a middle class boring job. i never used my education and i've gone form being bankrupt to a multimillionaire in 25 years. so kids don't need an education, they need to be paid. where have you been the last 60 years, it's not amateur, it's forced slavery. it's coaches, presidents and AD's making millions in salaries and school making millions off kids they do not care about, don't care about concussions or future health, they've always paid these kids under the table tons of money, it's been big business forever and you're just so naive you think it's amateur sports. sorry, but open your eyes, it's been going on since ncaa started. big time athletes have been paid illegally, and there has never been a single day in college sports where athletes weren't paid an the fact that you think it was ever amateur sports just makes me sad that you are so clueless and it's the problem with our country. you cannot go back to something that never existed. just plain idiotic to ever think amateur sports for football and basketball ever existed. it's been pay for play for the top athletes and now everyone gets to share. this is not a MAGA situation, and just like MAGA the past was never what you thought it was, people are just too naive, too closeminded, or jsut too dumb to have any real thought to understand. the fact that i even have to explain it is so sad and why our country is where it is today. cluless, uneducated closeminded people telling us how things supposedly used to be and that's how it should be now when it never existed. sheep.
