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<blockquote data-quote="jojatk" data-source="post: 981217" data-attributes="member: 2627"><p>Let’s remove NIL from consideration for my question for a second. Hypothetical situation: athlete A at XYZ university gets scholarship, room, and board. He is expected, in return, to practice N hours a day, be in the weight room M hours a day, go to classes P hours a day, and do homework Q hours per day, and on game day of course he is expected to be at “work” all day and in football that’s also probably the day before. Oh and if he has any dings or injuries he has to be at rehab A hours per day. N+M+P+Q+A are all things he’s expected to do in return for his scholarship, room, and board and stipend. When is he supposed to get a real job that pays him any money that’s worth taking away from those other expectations put on him for earning all the stuff he’s already getting? And by real job I mean one where he makes some actual money. And that may require going off campus so add in travel time.</p><p></p><p>Yes I know plenty of students have full time jobs so I’m not suggesting athletes have it harder than they do. I’m speaking purely of the world in which there’s just a LOT of hours of the day already taken up in things the athletes are expected to do. I’m not making value judgments or worth or anything like that. I’m just wondering when athlete A has the time to go to a real job? Certainly not during Fall or Spring as the case may be for basketball and football players. Summer perhaps? BTW I’m also not comparing this to athletes in non-revenue sports at the moment and I know they have to supplement their income as well but I’m just talking about football for the moment. So again the question is when do they go to work?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jojatk, post: 981217, member: 2627"] Let’s remove NIL from consideration for my question for a second. Hypothetical situation: athlete A at XYZ university gets scholarship, room, and board. He is expected, in return, to practice N hours a day, be in the weight room M hours a day, go to classes P hours a day, and do homework Q hours per day, and on game day of course he is expected to be at “work” all day and in football that’s also probably the day before. Oh and if he has any dings or injuries he has to be at rehab A hours per day. N+M+P+Q+A are all things he’s expected to do in return for his scholarship, room, and board and stipend. When is he supposed to get a real job that pays him any money that’s worth taking away from those other expectations put on him for earning all the stuff he’s already getting? And by real job I mean one where he makes some actual money. And that may require going off campus so add in travel time. Yes I know plenty of students have full time jobs so I’m not suggesting athletes have it harder than they do. I’m speaking purely of the world in which there’s just a LOT of hours of the day already taken up in things the athletes are expected to do. I’m not making value judgments or worth or anything like that. I’m just wondering when athlete A has the time to go to a real job? Certainly not during Fall or Spring as the case may be for basketball and football players. Summer perhaps? BTW I’m also not comparing this to athletes in non-revenue sports at the moment and I know they have to supplement their income as well but I’m just talking about football for the moment. So again the question is when do they go to work? [/QUOTE]
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