(05-14-2017 04:24 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  Khalid Hill is getting full paid tuition, cost of attendance stipend, access to free food 24/7 at the football training facility, free sneakers and athletic wear, an upgraded dorm room and access to free tutoring in every class. There are 40,000 kids going to Mich paying for all of that and plenty of them are broke right now. Maybe Mr Hill needs to check his situation a little better.

No matter how you try to justify it, the bottom line is that it will always look like spin.

Should we think of it as an apprentice program as a justification to not pay someone their fair market value? Then...the apprenticeship program sucks royally because the vast majority of these kids never make it to the pros, and then what?

Maybe we take the academic approach and say they have the opportunity to receive a free education. Bullsh!t. The majority of these kids would never make it to the institution on their own if they had to compete with the other student applicants on academics alone. How much of an opportunity is higher education really if the "students" aren't able to truly take advantage of it due to them being shut out of the more rigorous degrees due to them not being college material in the first place?

Point is that this line of argument is ridiculous, and that the fans that crow the loudest about these kids not getting fair value for their FB playing are those who know their school could not compete due to a weak athletic department.