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Originally posted by LarryS
First, if you have children you should understand that when you spend 20 minutes explaining your reason behind the unfavorable answer and your child yells "THAT'S NOT FAIR.", it is the best and most appropriate answer.
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I can honestly say that I've never had one of my children say that to me.
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Now, more importantly I must point out that not everyone thinks the rules are wrong! I'm sure you have heard the stories of athletes getting paid large sums of money to mow an artifical turf field.
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Please reference the post where I said that this was right. It's not the point that I'm arguing.
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Now you want to propose taking on-campus jobs away from students who need them to survive and slightly minimize the huge debt they will be facing at graduation and give them to someone getting free tuition, free room and board and free books just so they can have spending money?
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Wrong, wrong, wrong! How can you tell me what I want to do? Again, please reference the post where I made such a proposal.
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Ohhhh, they can work off campus. Now Mr. Highroller Allum will take a job away from a kid in the city and give it to the star QB and pay him an astronomical wage.
Ohhhh, you want to cap their earnings? How long before one of the jocks files a lawsuit against the NCAA for restraint of trade?
What if there are not enough "extra" jobs in the community for ALL the athletes (male and female)? Discrimination lawsuit begging to be filed!
If they need spending money that bad, let them sell that new Trans-Am and use public transportation. By the way, how does that single mom afford such a nice car? Shouldn't she have bought a Kia so she would have enough to send Junior $50 a week of party money?
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Sorry but the BS is getting entirely too deep. Yes, there are excesses and people who abuse the system. But it's a small minority, doing these things. You can't label all student athletes as being a party to these types of wrongdoings. The fact is that there are thousands of student athletes who are struggling to make ends meet, even though they're on an athletic scholarship. You're simply looking at a very small part of the picture.
My son attends a small D1 school, one without a football program. I can assure you that his roommate, a walk-on for the baseball team last year, was not making $30 an hour watching the automatic sprinkler system water the baseball field. And his vehicle was not given to him by a school booster.