Anonymous wrote:I had an academic scholarship and it didn't include a meal plan, so I went to bed hungry plenty of nights. I just don't feel like this can possibly be such a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:Don't believe everything you read. Full ride athletic scholarships come with a meal card. That meal card means any athlete can eat as much as they want during cafeteria hours, anytime they want.

Weekends are up to you. That's where friends, family, part time jobs come in. If anyone is starving it's because they choose to.

This is about getting money. Every athlete is given a small stipend to cover personal essentials. Weed and beer, panty chasing, clubbing, come last. You hungry, GO EAT.

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Anonymous wrote:College athletes are paid; scholarships allow them to take on little to no debt for a degree. Sure some never finish, but that is no different than the thousands of other college dropouts. If you have a full-ride you can still take out a student loan for living expenses which includes food.

As for the NOT being able to eat at a team mates home, that is garbage. We all know the rule is only there to prevent people from throwing parties for the athletes or bringing them to lavish restaurants as a reward for winning or agents buttering them up.

This rule is the NCAA's. You and I don't get to make the rules no matter how ridiculous it sounds.

Meals in the home of a student-athlete’s parent must be preapproved and documented through the athletic
department.

Doesn't matter if it is a rule, what matters is how strictly is it enforced. I highly doubt schools document the dozens to hundreds of scholar athletes eating habits. The media as usually digs for the most sensationalist stories and makes it out to be the norm. As for the recent quote from UCONN it is clearly an attempt to bolster more support for unionizing and eventually paying salaries to student athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:college athletes should be paid.

the ncaa brings in riduclous amounts of revenue.

it is disgusting.

so remove all athletic scholarships for salaries. Only profitable programs will actually pay students; the rest require students to play for free. You get a system that is much more like capitalism and only the best most popular succeed while the kids playing random sports lose their scholarships. Works for me I have no plans of pushing my kid to professional sports pipe dreams.

You need to look at the situation from the whole system, not only one or two sports that might make money at a few dozen of the hundreds of universities.

Anonymous wrote:college athletes should be paid.

the ncaa brings in riduclous amounts of revenue.

it is disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:the integrity of college athletics

Anonymous wrote:I think what's missing in this discussion is the preface that the kid gets hungry and then sees someone profiting from selling jerseys with HIS NAME ON THEM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College athletes are paid; scholarships allow them to take on little to no debt for a degree. Sure some never finish, but that is no different than the thousands of other college dropouts. If you have a full-ride you can still take out a student loan for living expenses which includes food.

As for the NOT being able to eat at a team mates home, that is garbage. We all know the rule is only there to prevent people from throwing parties for the athletes or bringing them to lavish restaurants as a reward for winning or agents buttering them up.

This rule is the NCAA's. You and I don't get to make the rules no matter how ridiculous it sounds.

Meals in the home of a student-athlete’s parent must be preapproved and documented through the athletic
department.

Anonymous wrote:College athletes are paid; scholarships allow them to take on little to no debt for a degree. Sure some never finish, but that is no different than the thousands of other college dropouts. If you have a full-ride you can still take out a student loan for living expenses which includes food.

As for the NOT being able to eat at a team mates home, that is garbage. We all know the rule is only there to prevent people from throwing parties for the athletes or bringing them to lavish restaurants as a reward for winning or agents buttering them up.

Anonymous wrote:I think what's missing in this discussion is the preface that the kid gets hungry and then sees someone profiting from selling jerseys with HIS NAME ON THEM.