“At my university, members of the football team secured some spending money by this type of program. At the time I was washing dishes for the same reason. I saw some of the yard maintenance athletes and a lot ot the time they were allowed to “work” but not be supervised. I thought of it as a “graft “ job at the time, like a way to get some scholarship players some extra money.”
A few years ago a NY university was sending football players to Florida to “work” in construction.
At the end of summer they were layed off and drew unemployment.
What a cool idea, I guess at my school they could have filed for unemployment too,