Posted on 04/07/2014 1:48:32 PM PDT by RightGeek
Shabazz Napier, point guard for The University of Connecticut's men's basketball team, recently told reporters he understands why athletes at Northwestern need a union, as he sometimes has to go to bed "starving" because he cannot afford food.
"We as student athletes get utilized for what we do so well. We are definitely best to get a scholarship to our universities, but at the end of the day, that doesn't cover everything. We do have hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food and sometimes money is needed," the senior told reporters. "I think, you know, Northwestern has an idea, and we'll see where it goes."
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When were you there last? I was there yesterday and there are all sorts of bars, fast food and pizza joints as well as the UCONN dairy bar. There’s lts to do in Storrs
A better plan is to tell the NFL and the NBA to start their own farm systems and stop paying the tuition of chronic discipline problems [and apparently whiners] to take worthless classes in sports "medicine" and kinesiology, and even then graduating at a rate of only 50-65% of the rest of the school.
Or 4 Oodles of Noodles and one 6-pack of Piels. Sometimes in life one just has to make the tough calls.
Well if student athletes aren’t there for school then the whole free school thing is clearly not adequate compensation.
Shabbaz...maybe he’s practicing taquia...
in college, the generic vodka was the cheapest. add frozen OJ in a blender and you get a yummy orange fizz that will get you plastered
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http://www.dining.uconn.edu/resident_dining_hours.html
Dining halls are all you can eat. Three of the dining halls are apparently open until 10PM sun-Thur, and fri/sat close at 7:15 PM.
Apparently there are a couple of traffic lights along the campus, south of mirror lake, the second of which has a strip mall of mixed sit down and grab and go restraunts...plus the food court in the student union.
All students living in the dorms have to have a meal plan which has unlimited access to the cafeterias while they are open, plus an allotment of flex plans which allow them to Get a limited number of pre packaged meals at kiosks on campus (lowest plan has 35 per semester).
Never going to happen.
The NLRB ruling hasn't even made it all the way up the hearing process and still has to go to Federal Court. That's a decade away. Even if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a union -- it won't -- universities can't allow it to happen because they couldn't possibly function without the near slave labor provided by senior undergrads and graduate students to run labs, correct papers, and do teaching.
The universities would have to cut faculty salaries if that happened, or do away with their sports programs. Universities are run by their Faculty Senates, most of whom don't want sports on their campuses. Guess which one will happen?
If they’re not there for school they shouldn’t be there at all.
“he understands why athletes at Northwestern need a union”
I see he has enough money for tattoos. I smell Obama.
Shabazz should be ashamed of himself.
They celebrate these guys and then “starve” them... what the sam hill is going on anyhow?
I'm late to the thread, but awesome post!
He is. An an athlete he has access to training tables for his sport as we'll as a food card. Value about $7,000.00 per year
He has free housing value about $9,000 per year
He has free books for about a $4,000 per year bennie.
U of Conn has an out of state tuition of about $15,450 per semester or about $7,000 for in state tuition.
So this little is getting a free ride at college of at a minimum of $34,000 to about $52,000 per year if he does not come from CT and pay out of state tuition - tax free, BTW, - to play basket ball.
Add a 30% tax rate and he has the equivalent of a $65,000 per year job to shoot hoops for 4 or 5 months out the year
He should keep his F’n mouth shut, there are tons of High School B-Ball players who would kill to have that deal in a competitive market.
Free tuition, books, fees, tutors and food. He’s full of bull.
On the other side, the college is making a ton of money on his sport. If he joins a union, will he have to pay taxes on the tuition and other items?
Think athletes are the only ones getting hungry late night? Let's see, it was about a 3 hour breakfast window, a 4 hour lunch window, a 3 hours dinner window and a 2 hour midnight snack window. Only time that was short was no cafeteria for Sunday dinner and midnight snack. Almost forgot, the student union restaurant was about 1/3 the cost of an off campus hamburger plus had beer. What a whiner and privileged primadonna plus the athletes have their own private cafeteria separate from the common students.
I don’t believe this whiner.
He must play for the wrong College. AR you call any
AD, Coach of any sport and I bet you will get fed! This Cat is way off the wall! Starving nights my a$$! All athletes run on what? Asinine and ridiculous. His A$$ just overloaded his mouth because some reporter stoked this deal! Heck Richardson would get his wife outta bed and made a spread! This Cat needs black balled! Ungrateful A$$!
I don't know about all the other perks, I never asked... but I can tell you one thing for damn sure, they ate VERY well
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