@PitchingFan posted:People act like football and basketball players are starving. Those people need to tour a P5 cafeteria for football and basketball. It is like a fine food restaurant. All free.
This is what gets overlooked. Free tuition, free healthcare, free apparel, free training, free unlimited food, free housing, free everything. Or the players could accept a small stipend in exchange for forfeiting their housing and meal plan. Of course a lot of players made bad decisions and were eating ramen as a result. They take to twitter where the mob gets involved and the narrative becomes: NCAA makes billions while student athletes eat ramen in their dorm.
Now you give the players the ability to make money and people only want it done a certain way. If a booster wants to give somebody 8 million to come play at their school who cares. Why is signing posters at the mall or working a few camps ok but money in exhange for commitment not ok?
Too many people think with their emotions, not enough think with their heads.