Bazz: NCAA leaves players hungry

[huskies20]

I hadn't seen a thread about this, but I think this is absolutely disgusting that the NCAA can profit off of these players and leave them hungry. It is very strong and courageous for Bazz to speak about this.

Shabazz Napier: NCAA Revenue Doesn’t Feed Cash-Strapped Players

 

[CAHUSKY]

What athlete on a full division 1 athletic scholarship doesn't have books, meals and housing covered along with tuition???

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

What athlete on a full division 1 athletic department doesn't have tuition, books, meals and housing covered along with tuition???

From the article:
"Currently, scholarships cover tuition to the university but fail to cover the expenses of items like food, text books, and often room and board."

 

[Bryan Lord]

From the article:
"Currently, scholarships cover tuition to the university but fail to cover the expenses of items like food, text books, and often room and board."

Pretty sure room and board is covered...it's like the most expensive part of college.

 

[James]

a person of such stature like bazz shouldnt be eating crap meals. get that man some lobster dinners.

 

[CAHUSKY]

From the article:
"Currently, scholarships cover tuition to the university but fail to cover the expenses of items like food, text books, and often room and board."

I know it's what the article said but it's wrong regarding division 1 athletes on full scholarship like Bazz. Here is a USA Today article from the 2011 final four showing what's covered and the cost at each school. While the players don't get walking around money, they aren't "going hungry".

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2011-value-of-college-scholarship.htm

 

[CL82]

For those students who qualify a Pell grant of $7500 is available.

 

[seanmc94]

I'm pretty sure the athletes are referring to grabbing a burger or pizza like a normal student. However, they fail to realize the myriad of other advantages their scholarship affords them

 

[James]

I'm pretty sure the athletes are referring to grabbing a burger or pizza like a normal student. However, they fail to realize the myriad of other advantages their scholarship affords them

how about the myriad of dollar signs rolling through bank accounts because of said athletes? buying 535i's off napiers jumpshot. get him some chicken l'orange.

 

[dogfan96]

Yeah really.. $12M per year (Coach Calhoun quoted in the "not a dime back" press conference)....it's absurd that those young men bring in THAT much revenue to the University every year (and many other entities benefit from it besides just the basketball program) and yet they don't have walking around money. It's almost criminal

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Yeah really.. $12M per year (Coach Calhoun quoted in the "not a dime back" press conference)....it's absurd that those young men bring in THAT much revenue to the University every year (and many other entities benefit from it besides just the basketball program) and yet they don't have walking around money. It's almost criminal

Especially considering it is 100% impossible for any of them to hold a part-time job of any kind with their schedule. Give them a stipend equal to a work-study job.

 

[champs99and04]

I'm wondering if the people responding ITT even read the article. Bazz explicitly mentions in the article that even food money is hard to come by for some athletes. I don't know if this is true - and I have no reason not to believe him - but if it is, that's pretty alarming.

 

[dogfan96]

I'm wondering if the people responding ITT even read the article. Bazz explicitly mentions in the article that even food money is hard to come by for some athletes. I don't know if this is true - and I have no reason not to believe him - but if it is, that's pretty alarming.

I lived in close proximity to football and basketball players when I was in college, and it's true. Believe me.

 

[joober jones]

I thought this thread was going to be about the NCAA tournament making players metaphorically hungry. I was way off base.

 

[Greg]

a person of such stature like bazz shouldnt be eating crap meals. get that man some lobster dinners.

Compared to the walking around money players who are not as good as Napier get from , say Kentucky, Shabazz has a point. Starving is a relative thing, when he's in the NBA he'll earn almost as much as those Kentucky Wildcats.

 

[seanmc94]

Not buying the starving stuff. Athletes have access to training tables and most schools have dining facilities in the dorms. May not be the case at UConn; but most do.

 

[Palatine]

They don't have to play in college. There are leagues that pay players.

College is like a minor league system where you get a free education that lasts a lifetime. Ask Bazz f he would like to trade places with someone in baseball's minor league system

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Having two grandsons in college I can relate.
The meal plans are expensive but barely adequate for a young man.
Some might even say not edible.
Particularly athletes expending the calories they do day in and day out.
We provided additional money monthly as did their parents .
Most of these kids don't have that option.
Then again if they take advantage of the education offered they don't face student loan repayment . The bane of the middle class.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Not buying the starving stuff. Athletes have access to training tables and most schools have dining facilities in the dorms. May not be the case at UConn; but most do.

The NCAA regulates access to training tables and the like. They don't get unlimited food. Not sure why you think otherwise. They actually get one training meal a day, and there are regulations as to where they have to eat it, because the NCAA is great and is about the kids. Do your run of the mill college meal plans fill in the gaps that a D1 athlete requires? Not for me to say.

There's a coach down in Lexington who's actually taking on the NCAA on this point, with the support of a group of sports nutritionists. But I assume you know that, too.

 

[David 76]

We can't buy him a burgher. Food plans may not cover weekends. He can't work, even in the summer. Some money would make sense just to avoid fencing laptops to make ends meet.

 

[champs99and04]

They don't have to play in college. There are leagues that pay players.

College is like a minor league system where you get a free education that lasts a lifetime. Ask Bazz f he would like to trade places with someone in baseball's minor league system

And how do you expect to use that free education to its fullest extent - much less make it last a lifetime - when the schedules are so demanding? I mean, with some of these kids, you're talking 6-8 hours a day of practice and film study, and that doesn't even include the time they have to allot to travel and games. This isn't you or me playing in their local Rec league, playing high stakes college basketball is basically a full-time job. The NCAA and its supporters love to grab the "free education" clutch, but is it really realistic for them to get as much out of college from an academic perspective as you or I?

As for these minor league systems, until they garner a fraction of the exposure that college basketball does, they aren't really viable options.

 

[caw]

Not to discount what Bazz is saying but when I was in college a full scholarship player was afforded room and board in on campus housing and dinning. Not sure about those that decided to live off campus or not have dining plan.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Not to discount what Bazz is saying but when I was in college a full scholarship player was afforded room and board in on campus housing and dinning. Not sure about those that decided to live off campus or not have dining plan.

In my day, if you lived off campus you received a housing stipend equal to the amount it cost to live on campus. The trick was to get a cheap apartment, share rooms, eat cheaply and use the extra cash to buy booze and go on dates. Don't know how much things have changed since the late 80/ early 90's but that's how we rolled.

 

[dogfan96]

The NCAA regulates access to training tables and the like. They don't get unlimited food. Not sure why you think otherwise. They actually get one training meal a day, and there are regulations as to where they have to eat it, because the NCAA is great and is about the kids. Do your run of the mill college meal plans fill in the gaps that a D1 athlete requires? Not for me to say.

There's a coach down in Lexington who's actually taking on the NCAA on this point, with the support of a group of sports nutritionists. But I assume you know that, too.

Basically people talking about stuff they don't know about (not you, but the post you replied to)

 

[uchusky32]

Yeah it covers room, books food on campus. I can tell you from experience. I was on a football scholarship at UConn all be it in the 80's. If it wasn't for the fact that my dad wasa VP at IBM at least 10 other guys on both the ffootball and basketball team wouldn't have been eating dominos or grinders at Teds most nights because we were hungry. Guys came home with me on breaks because they couldn't afford to get home. What about hair cuts, cloths can't work? Please it's not that simple.