That’s not paid. Those scholarships are a leash. Because the coach can take them away any time. Payment is MONEY in the BANK. A method of controlling your own life. Not a tool for others to control you.
The minute coaches got paid more than teachers we all knew it was entertainment. We just keep lying to ourselves about the “student athlete” myth. For no good reason either. Other than it makes a good structure to not pay the athletes. To maintain some illusion of purity. A very stupid illusion because every other student out there can also make money. You can take software classes AND work. Why were student athletes called out to have to be amateur? It is stupid. It is evil. And it should have ended DECADES ago.
Doesn’t seem to be much a leash with all these student-athletes moving from college\university to college\university through this portal business!
We were student athletes required to be amateur?
So, classmates of mine can revisit their colleges relive their 20s and get drunk a couple of times a year.