Originally Posted by Kevinob15
So regular students are subject to his but athletes are above it? Now you’re the one setting the double standard. Plenty of parents have been ruined by their underachieving children but that doesn’t mean athletes should be expempt.
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As I said, solutions that sound good but accomplish nothing. GO FOR IT.
1) The chemistry department doesn't have a multi-billion dollar hype machine running 24 hour a day stories, including "where are they now" segments. Don't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
2) There is a pre-existing bias toward the athlete as being taken advantage of by the multi-billion dollar college sports complex. You will lose in the court of public opinion. No such bias exists for the engineering department.
3) Regular students are not national celebrities with a limited shelf-life. College athletes = 4 years, maybe 5, and MAYBE 6 if you're Mormon. There's no "4 in 5" rule for the chemistry department. You will lose in the court of public opinion.
4) An incredibly disproportionate percentage of men's college BB and FB players come from a highly underprivileged background. You'll get nothing most of the time except bad press from the local paper (but no actual recovered $$), but again, go for it.
ESPN and the local paper will just print that "former North Carolina player Jimmy Jones, who accepted $10K from an agent, is currently back at home in Baton Rouge living with his mother. His father, who abandoned the family when Jimmy was 2, is not in the picture. We spoke to him from the 1-room house on the bayou where he told us that he can't afford a lawyer on his mother's $400 per month disability check, and he can't afford to pay back the $120K the university is suing him for. He claims he only accepted the $10K so he could travel back to his sister's funeral when he was a freshman. The ACLU, the UNCF, and Al Sharpton have taken up the cause."