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Econimcs did. And your right, I entered college at the age of 22, after a 4 year enlistment in the USMC. I got to play a kids game under the guise of sponsored education.

A scholarship athlete had its perks, but it also has cons. Two days before game, your basically segregated from the entire student body. I loved having to fly out on Wednesday for a Thursday night game, come back Friday morning, and catching up with tutors all weekend while getting treatment from getting nailed by 300+ lb animals whom had zero ambitions on graduating.

It is a honor to get/be on scholarship, but what if I was on academic scholarship, didn’t need the athletic and felt my talents are monitorized by the NCAA, way beyond what kids game should be valued. Would I do it again the same exact way, yes. But, there is something just incrediblly disfunctionalable about the entire erangment. Playing D1 NCAA college footbal is a 10 month, 2,300 hour dedication, I was not permitted to have job. I did not have a car, because I had no income stream.

My attire was athletic department issued sweats/shirts/shorts. I needed a suit; I was forced to liquidate savings. Savings that I made by collecting scrap metal for a few weeks when I was at my mom and dad’s in the summer.

I had no idea the expections I had to fullfill for a scholarship.

And the stippen? 300 a month. I made a phone calls from Boston to exotic NJ; a 20 minute call was 10 dollars at the time. If I was aloud to work and some money above the meager threshold, I could deal with that.

Maybe get rid of scholarships and just pay the athletes whom generate millions per year at that institution.

Please excuse the typos, I’m using a smartphone with cracked screen.

Ultimately, no one forced to play, I did it under my freewill, but I did have to compromise a lifestyle.

I think the kids should get paid, especially the football and hoops programs from the TV revenue. My likeness is used with aggregious consent.

Its just my view and so understand the other side of the narrative.