When I was in college the football players ate very very well. I remember the athletes eating steak while the regular students ate hamburgers and leftover spaghetti. I think the football players had it a lot easier than many of the regular students that had to pay for everything.
swoly wtf??? do you really thing this was shot yesterday or even this week. According to IMDB, this documentary was in post-production in July 2013 and will premier October 2013. This means Arian's interview was probably from May/June time frame. Let's **** on Arian for not consulting with the Producers about the release date for their documentary.
I respect arian outspoken ways, but he is bringing heat on his university and current players who may be receiving money on the side.
I don't think student athletes are allowed to have job. Only during the summer can they get a part-time job.
Athlete should be allowed to profit from things like signitures and appearances BUT, they should never be paid a salary for playing football. They already get a 40k a year education that everyone else had to payfor. Also, I'm not sure I buy the whole, we're hungry thing. Every college athlete I knew had a meal plan with the dorm cafeterias included.
An education is usually a 4 year deal right, well scholarships are yearly and can be pulled any year by coaches. So i wouldn't say a player is given a full blown education unless he gets a 4 year scholarship which as I said they don't exist. When Arian was in school it was only tuition,room&board, books, and fees. The NCAA gave the conferences a right to add a stipend up to $2000 as a provision (optional) in 2012. But it's the conference decision not NCAA and it's optional. The biggest problem, if you give players like Arian 2-4k stipend for expenses, you also have to give it to the female backup soccer player who's a bench warmer.
A year of college is what you make of it. Regardless of your idea of what an "education" is, it is valued at around 40k a year and everyone else has to pay it, so it most certainly is a form of payment. At any point any college student could not be able to afford another year, that doesn't make what they paid for less valuable. Athletes ultimately get way more than most students
The education is the trade-off but it certainly isn't "free". And for a limited amount of players, the education is a drop in the bucket compared to what the school makes off of them.
Athletes get way more than most students because the school gets way more off of them than they do for most students.
+1 I was tired of his crap from the beginning but he could run the ball incredibly. Now that his explosion, and ability to cut people have diminished............meh.
" Either you give us some food, or I'm gonna go do something stupid.' " Kind of explains why that coaching staff bad mouthed him. I don't think players should get paid. They get to display their talents to the next level. where are they going to do that? Europe? Plus, they get unlimited vj and an education. They should have unlimited food supply though. I also think Foster should have kept quiet about it. But he is arian the contrarian. he does what he wants. it's all good.
Not so sure. College athletics is a have/have-nots world. More athletic programs are in the red than you would think. Grad students pull in tens of thousands of $ in grant money and get paid peanuts for 60 hour work weeks.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Arian Foster: "I feel like I shouldn't have to run from the ncaa anymore" <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a></p>— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) <a href="https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/statuses/381134700485419008">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"They have us hoodwinked into thinking taking money is wrong" Arian Foster <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a></p>— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) <a href="https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/statuses/381136752116645888">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Arian Foster on the NCAA: "They’re like these big bullies. I’m not scared of them." <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a></p>— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) <a href="https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/statuses/381137998353805313">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Arian Foster on amateurism in college sports: "It’s just been a big charade for years. It’s about time for it to come to an end."</p>— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) <a href="https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/statuses/381138982496899072">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a>' Arian Foster said he isn't trying to throw anyone under the bus. Spoke up because of injustice of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NCAA&src=hash">#NCAA</a> system. Wants change.</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/statuses/381136994811650048">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a>' Arian Foster reference <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Cowboys&src=hash">#Cowboys</a> WR Dez Bryant's interraction with Deion Sanders as proof of hypocrisy of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NCAA&src=hash">#NCAA</a> system.</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/statuses/381137282775781376">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a>' Arian Foster said it's not fair that <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NCAA&src=hash">#NCAA</a> officials have BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes and players don't get paid for anything.</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/statuses/381137460157112320">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a>' Arian Foster said he thought about repercussions of speaking out and was fine with them. Said <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NCAA&src=hash">#NCAA</a> has student-athletes hoodwinked</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/statuses/381137668391698432">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Texans&src=hash">#Texans</a>' Arian Foster wouldn't put percentage on number of football players accepting money. But he added it's obvious it's happening.</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/statuses/381138016204378112">September 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Nearly impossible. My brother plays college baseball, and he would never have time for a job. He goes to class in the morning, has practice for several hours every day, has to work out, run or do whatever to stay conditioned outside of actual practice, and he has to do his school work and studying. And that is before the season has started. Once the season starts, he's doing all the same things PLUS traveling to games which causes him to miss class, so he has to do extra work outside of class to catch up. Being a college athlete affords you very little free time, much less time to have a job.
To be fair some of the schools wont allow players to get jobs i'm not sure about Tennessee's policy on this. .
