Do we still consider them Student Athletes or

[gamecox4982]

College Players that are paid?

 

[ToddFlanders]

Technically they’re still “amateurs” - it’s the Olympic model wherein sponsorships are allowed but not direct pay-for-play. Again, we see how it’s actually working, so it’s a technicality at this point.

 

[Neanderthal]

The OADs are definitely not student/athletes.

 

[Boom4life]

Who cares? I mean seriously.

 

[FORKCOCK]

Not really.

 

[bucketdad]

Students on loan.

 

[CockySC01]

I suppose. To play sports they still have to be attending classes and maintaining certain grades, as far as I know.

 

[Lurker123]

Speaking of just football, but I can't remember a time I seriously considered them to be students.

 

[Neanderthal]

I suppose. To play sports they still have to be attending classes and maintaining certain grades, as far as I know.

Most of the OADs take the simple courses set up for them their first semester. Second semester they may not attend because as soon as March Madness is over, they are are not going back.

 

[JohnnySolo]

Student Athletes? Yeah right. You have students and you have athletes. Only the kids who truly love the sport they are playing are student athletes. They value the free education the get from being talented at a sport. The rest are there to make money. USC is just a pit stop. I have no use for them.

 

[ToddFlanders]

Student Athletes? Yeah right. You have students and you have athletes. Only the kids who truly love the sport they are playing are student athletes. They value the free education the get from being talented at a sport. The rest are there to make money. USC is just a pit stop. I have no use for them.

Hopefully USC is just a pit stop for everyone who enrolls there - with brighter days on the horizon because of it.

 

[midline]

This just didn't begin with the NIL, but the term "student-athlete" has been little more than a marketing term for years, decades. Anyone who has really taken this description literally has been incredibly naïve

 

[JohnnySolo]

My kids want to play ball well enough to get a scholarship to a college. Those are student athletes. Athletics as a means to pay for the academics.

 

[adcoop]

My kids want to play ball well enough to get a scholarship to a college. Those are student athletes. Athletics as a means to pay for the academics.

You are being a little self-righteous. 99% of people are as loyal as there options. Most kids want an education, but if you are going to wave a 10 million lottery ticket (contract) in their face, the athletic scholarship is going to decrease in importance. Getting mad at these OAD's and highly recruited athletes that command NIL money is like getting mad at the pretty girl because she gets all the guys.