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(07-15-2021 09:01 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(07-15-2021 08:28 AM)Helicopter Wrote:  Count me in the camp of paying the players / NIL is bad for college athletics. It really kind of eliminates the point.

However, now that we are going down this road I hope UC is a trailblazer in student (lol) athlete sponsorships. I want to be the best at this new thing that will clearly create a bigger divide between haves and have nots. Lets get on the right side of that.

Can you elaborate on that? That's an argument I have never understood in all of this honestly.

I knew several guys who were on scholarship for football, several at UC.

They lived like kings. And that was even when UC sucked at football.

This Shabazz Napier "I went to bed hungry every night"... I guess it's possible, but I never saw it.

And the "the coaches and colleges make so much money off of them" is a lame argument. My employers have always made a pretty penny off of my efforts that I didn't think was proportionate, but I never started a company, either.

I, like the scholarship athletes, have the option to leave if we don't like it. And yet we stay. This NIL stuff is not well thought out and is going to lead to a big mess.