Paying College Players (Arian Foster)

[Hollywood]

I have reached my tipping point where the players and ESPN stupidity has pushed the topic too far.

Arian Foster came out and said he took money his senior year because he HAD to pay rent and buy food. Who the fuck does he think he is? He was a scholarship athlete at a major college and his rent and food is paid for!!!! 100% by the university. He could eat at the Student Union until he was as fat as I am. He said that there is nothing wrong with what he did. This is also not true. Collegiate sports are amateur sports. They are paid quite handsomely in the fact that they get a college education, food, books, a place to live, travel to great places around our country, and the joy of playing college sports. This does not account for the fact that, if they take advantage of the schooling they can build a solid life and career.

If they have to support a family back home then they should leave school. Any normal person would not have the ability these players have, many good students and good people miss out on college simply because they cannot afford to go.

Here are some facts:

There are over 10,000 Division I football players and only 224 will be drafted into the NFL where they average career is under 3 years. The NFL has only 1,700 players total at any one time.

There are over 5,250 Division I basketball players and less than 60 will be drafted into the NBA. There are only 450 NBA players at any given time.

Most Division I football programs LOSE money. Paying athletes a salary will end college sports and it will never happen.

Most college kids struggle if they don't come from very rich families and many go into obscene amounts of debt to pay for it and their college experience is considerably deminished compared to an athletes life. I have only mentioned the top 2 sports as most colleges have many more athletic sports with scholarship athletes who will not go pro and live under the same conditions the football and basketball players do.

[No Surprize]

I agree and without a doubt they get A LOT.An average student would donate a kidney to get what they do. I never have wrapped my head around the notion of the "Give me more" attitude. You touched some of the bases but there are many. College Football & Basketball are these schools "Cash Cow". Without them, they couldn't fund the other sports that other student-athletes play. Such as Golf, Baseball, Track, gymnastics, swimming, and many more. All these other sports require plane trips that the university pays for. And like you stated food is free. Have you EVER seen college football player looking like he was being starved? Fuck no you haven't and they EAT A LOT! Ever seen a spread they get? Unreal. You would think you died and gone to food heaven. Hell, I know universities that have A smoothie shop in their athletic center, a full out grill where you can eat ribs and chicken till your bursting with joy, another with a well-known pizza chain with free friggin pizza all day & night long! Plus, these players get all kinds of free, yes free shit. Like if it's Nike or Adidas or whoever is their sponsor, free shirts, free shoes, free gatorade handed to them like they were coming out of Sam's club. These players get a dorm room that if you bought on the outside would cost you $150,000 dollars. They have giant ass tubs, flat screen tvs, video game consoles, computers all ready to go for their pleasure. And the NCAA doesn't stop them from getting a job if they want extra money to take their girlfriend out or what ever. But it has to be legit. You can't say you worked at a car lot and got paid 1000 dollars a day to wash a car. Arian Foster needs to have his ass whipped for making such an insane comment.