Cry me a river. First, basketball and football, pay for the costs of many other intercollegiate sports activities at most schools. Second, the annual costs of tuition, room and board, and other fees are huge, forcing most students to borrow money to attend school and working. Athletes on scholarship are a privileged few. Check out the annual costs for most of these big time schools and you will be blown away by the costs. It is no wonder that student debt now eclipses $1 trillion.
The typical annual cost for an out of state student at UCLA is $62,858.
And the kid who’s got nothing but a skill people pay hundreds of millions of dollars for...he accepts a sandwich from the wrong guy and the kid gets kicked off the team, kicked out of school? Yeah, that makes sense.