Sometimes UD likes to imagine people from… well, almost any other country in the world reading things like this. About universities.
Sometimes UD likes to imagine people from… well, almost any other country in the world reading things like this. About universities.
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June 13th, 2015 at 1:02PM
I love this caption on the photograph: “Former LSU running back Kenny Hilliard is a prime example of a college athlete who against all odds took full advantage of his scholarship by earning a Bachelors degree last December”
How true! What are the odds that an LSU running back would earn a degree?
June 13th, 2015 at 1:45PM
JND: LOL.
June 13th, 2015 at 7:45PM
“But I’m tired of Rush and others constantly bleating about how college athletes are exploited.
Many athletes come from homes with limited funds to cover the cost of ever-rising tuition. Attending college is a dream.
Scholarship athletes don’t have to pay a penny for housing, meals and books. They are provided with tutors and are able to study in high-tech academic centers with the latest equipment. They receive free athletic clothing and shoes, via their school’s lucrative contract with Nike, adidas, Under Armour, etc.
They train in some of the best athletic facilities in the world. They usually play in conferences that get maximum exposure through national TV contracts.”
This from the linked article. The writer claims he’s tired, I guess he was too tired to ask the players what they thought of all the free stuff, all the training they’re required to do, (doesn’t bother to mention that), why only by selling body and brain do they have the ability to attend a public uni. Maybe he, and his bosses, were afraid of what the answers would be.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/us/northwestern-football-union/
Northwestern Uni footballers realized that they couldn’t fulfill the student part of the student athlete equation, not with the 40 to 50 hours that football required during the regular season, the many required hours spent on football related duties in offseason. In fact, the players claimed, and the NLRB agreed, they’re employees, with no control, nor say, with what occurs with their collegiate lives. Of course they don’t have to pay for tuition, nor any of the other things mentioned above. They’re employees, and they organized in order to have a say in all of the wonders supposedly laid at their feet….