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VTCALS72

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On your players not getting a fair deal


As it seems to be based on every school at every level raking in millions and millions on the backs of players without the players getting anything.

Yet, the vast majority of players go pro in other than playing sports. Most players play for schools that don't make and spend the really big money.

Everything you said speaks to something better for the small minority of athletes that are hot prospects, nationally known and on ESPN a lot.

As far as I am concerned, most of that level player already has "handlers" supposedly looking our for them (but for them$elves first).

I am more concerned about the damage this will do to the guys at a P5 who never start but works his fanny off in practice and in the classroom and leaves with a degree. I am more concerned about players at lower levels playing in smaller gyms that never get seen on ESPN and whose NIL is nil, but to whom that scholarship or even partial scholarship (whether labeled as athletic, need or academic) is the ticket out of bad circumstances.

IMHO we are headed to a very small minority of players getting rich and richer while the vast majority lose out big time.


[Post edited by VTCALS72 at 04/16/2021 08:06AM]

(In response to this post by HeisenBurg13)

Posted: 04/16/2021 at 07:36AM



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  Your logic on buyouts is flawed... -- GCHokie34 04/16/2021 11:32AM
  That is not a valid point to my analogy -- VTCALS72 04/16/2021 12:04PM
  "Out of pocket means zip, zero, nada -- VTCALS72 04/16/2021 12:31PM
  The only way your argument has merit... -- GCHokie34 04/16/2021 12:44PM
  Athletic scholarships are not guaranteed. -- HeisenBurg13 04/16/2021 07:13AM
  Re: Athletic scholarships are not guaranteed. -- gobblecreek 04/16/2021 08:03AM
  See link. -- HeisenBurg13 04/16/2021 08:12AM
  Sorry, was only meaning to respond to -- gobblecreek 04/16/2021 4:23PM
  On your players not getting a fair deal -- VTCALS72 04/16/2021 07:36AM
  That’s capitalism. ** -- st_andrew 04/16/2021 08:46AM
  What is there not to understand??? -- HeisenBurg13 04/16/2021 07:41AM

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