(01-19-2015 09:01 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 06:36 PM)bamaEagle Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 05:52 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 05:11 PM)bamaEagle Wrote:  For once I actually agree with how this is working for the players. School is a lot more expensive than just tuition and a place to stay. As long as we don't get into paying these guys more and more and more, I don't see any issue with it. All schools that are able to do so should definitely join in on this.

How is school more expensive than tuition, books, room & board?

Transportation, food for when establishments on campus that requires a meal plan are not open, emergencies. These players more than likely cannot get a job due to practice, games, travel, and class. Not very great being stuck far away from home with $0.00 to your name. I am fortunate to have been able to come up with some money during college, but not all of these athletes are quite as privileged.

Where does a player need to go?

Food for when establishments on campus are not open? Is that even an issue anymore with all the chains on campus these days that accept "university currency"?

What emergencies? I mean, I think they should get full health care insurance, with the university picking up the deductible, but past that, what emergencies would pop up?

You say it's not very great being stuck away from home with no money, I say you were given an opportunity to have an education that many others couldn't afford because they too had no money to their name.

An athletic scholarship should be tuition (including costs associated with books and labs), room, board, and health insurance. Because those same woes you are talking about are present with academic scholarship kids, but there's nobody championing their cause.

.. Or try being a kid with no scholly, athletic or academic . . . . . Talk about no one championing a cause . . . . .