Sources: College hoops corruption case poised to take down top College BB Teams

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Originally Posted by LoneWolf

This is such ****ing bullshit. The vast majority of players are fairly compensated. What percentage of NCAA college athletes are ever going to make it in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL? Full ride scholarship athletes are given a scholarship that covers tuition, room and board, and some meals. That scholarship is worth tens of thousands of dollars a year. If they take advantage of this scholarship and get a degree in something different useful, it can provide for them and their familiy for the rest of their lives.

Only two of the sports you mentioned give full scholarships (football and basketball).

And yes, those players do receive a tremendous range of benefits. They also generate BILLIONS of dollars in revenue for their athletic departments and the NCAA while going to school and working a full-time job (and a manual labor type job, at that. How many people could work a full-time construction or roofing job and carry a full class load and thrive?)

The system makes it illegal for them to have part time jobs (which is necessary, otherwise you'd have the Roger Morningstars and Bill Lauries of the world setting guys up with "jobs" that pay six figures for "summer work."). Many of the players comes from abject poverty... this leaves them without cash in their pocket to buy a pizza or take someone on a date to a movie or buy a pair of shoes. That's why under-the-table cash is so prevalent and sought out.

The additional stipends schools pay out now definitely are a step in the right direction... they reduce the dependency on booster cash. If those went a tad bit further, even better.

It's also worth noting that many of the players are pushed through degree mill programs so their eligibility will be maintained, education and future prospects be damned.

They do receive tremendous benefits. But there are also still some cracks to examine.

College football and basketball players at power 5 programs subsidize a lot of people (the entire NCAA office, coaches making millions, every athletic program that isn't football or men's basketball, every program outside a major conference, etc.) They deserve a little bit more of the pie they're baking.