Oh yeah, popularity of minor league football is going to blow up. You're delusional.
Not one single Extra Dime!!!!!!
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Pay them. The $4100 or so we're going to pay our athletes each year is hardly going to enable them to live like royalty.
This is not the way "life works", and even if it were, that doesn't make it right. That's like saying if you have money and influence you can probably buy your way out of most legal problems, and that's okay because "that is how life works."
Businesses have employees who make money for the business. Universities have employees who do the same. However, those "unpaid student interns" you think so little of (student athletes) are the ones who truly drive the market. Nobody is showing up at WB Stadium on a Saturday afternoon to watch Spurrier and Dabo stare at each other from the sidelines. We watch the games to watch the SA. Without them, there is no business.
Completely agree. When I was a student athlete back in the late 70's it was almost a full time job then. Now, these kids are have absolutely zero time to have a side job to earn spending money. They deserve a little extra for what the do for the university. Many of these kids don't have parents who can send them extra cash.
Could you imagine going through school and not being able to eat out or even hit the bars once in awhile?
HA HA, so we pay them so they can hit the bars every now and again? I'm not against increasing their stipend, but I don't think they should be hitting the bars. That's what gets some of them in trouble now.
No, we pay them because they are essential parts of our multimillion dollar program. What they do with the money is none of our business. I doubt many of us have employers who send a letter home with our checks stating "You aren't allowed to go out drinking, you can't smoke, gamble, etc..."
