Or the dude couldn’t plan ahead and bring some fruit and cheese back from the dining hall?
(That said, there is something off in the way colleges cash in on these “student athletes”.
UConn, one of the best BBall schools in the country, doesn’t feed its players well...yeah.
I don’t. This story isn’t new. Remember unlike academic scholarships they don’t get a stipend, they’re working 50 hours a week at the sport so there’s no time for a job, if they take ANY kind of freebie from anybody that’s potentially compensation and against NCAA rules. The NCAA has made sure the system is terrible. If we’re not going to give them a stipend at least let them sell their autographs.
I guess this "student" got a call from someone in the Obama administration to goose this thing up.
Maybe part time jobs would be helpful
UConn obviously does not pay its players nearly as well as Kentucky does.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say this guy is seriously exaggerating.
When I was a student, athletes got open eating privileges at my college’s dining halls. Is that not true any more?
Having seen this problem as a player on a basketball scholarship a parent of a son on a basketball scholarship and working as an Academic Mentor to an Athletic Department I can see Napier’s point. I also think this situation will continue to evolve to a point where some colleges will drop athletics and some will hire athletes to play in a league for the school. Years back there was something called the Industrial League where pros played for companies regardless of their age or college achievement. It is sad but this is where college sports are headed.
Doesn’t pass the smell test. I went to a regional state university, lived with one athlete and did a career-based internship with another. Neither one starved. At all.
there were NO starving atheletes at my university, ever. the guy is lying. or a severe ass when it comes to managing his money. and apparently not smart enough to schmooze food and drink from athletic admirers if he is broke.
$1 will get you 5 oodles of noodles.
that’s what we ate at nights.
maybe his complaint is due to the moochelle food rationing program not ‘allowing’ him enough caloric intake as an athlete
The only ones who NEED a union are those who cannot reasonably relocate AND are when collective action is the only reasonable recourse to correct a wrong by some entity responsible for your well being.
Student athletes do not meet any of that. Mr. Napier could easily go pro, but he promised his mother that he'd complete college first. If Mr. Napier simply said, "recruit me", he'd have a signing bonus in his hands in an hour and all the food he would want.
Plenty of people in unions go hungry. Unionization didn't help them.
It’s all about budgeting. It’s not always what you have coming in, it’s also what’s going out.
A number of of these athletes won’t ever learn this skill before garnering big money contracts and then end up being broke after having earned millions of dollars.
I have a friend, a former college basketball player, who says he got free meals at the school cafeteria via his scholarship.
It’s hard to believe the sports program DOESN’T provide free meals.
I can’t comment on his assertion but keep in mind, athletes at this level probably burn 8000-10,000 calories a day.
Shabbaz...maybe he’s practicing taquia...
“he understands why athletes at Northwestern need a union”
I see he has enough money for tattoos. I smell Obama.
They celebrate these guys and then “starve” them... what the sam hill is going on anyhow?