Bazz: NCAA leaves players hungry

[kyle]

"Included in that $63 million budget is $10.2 million, about 16 percent, for athletic scholarships, which the department pays to the school. UConn's athletic department cleared a profit of $126,000 for the year ending June 30, 2010, and $91,000 the previous year. "So we have been fairly consistent," Enright said."

http://articles.courant.com/2011-12...1215_1_fbs-football-programs-eada-fiesta-bowl

Where is all this money going to come from?

 

[James]

What planet are you living on? Look I support some kind of a stipend. But UConn's dining halls are open all weekend. So are most others. When student athletes are on campus for athletic-related programs, say practice over Christmas break, the school can provide them meals and most do. At most schools once your in the dining hall, they don't limit what you eat either. so this idea that the players starve because they have to eat dining hall food...well that's kind of crazy. As far as summer work, that's not the case. That they mostly choose to focus on their games is a choice. Tell the kids who work a couple of jobs while going to school and hope to scramble together enough cash to pay the next semester's tuition and graduate with debts how tough life is.

kid trains like a professional, you want him to perform like a professional, dont feed him like a 19 year old zit faced bio major. the importance of nutrition in athletic endeavors can't be emphasized enough.

 

[dtrumpet]

The problem with a stipend is that all the D1 athletes will need to be paid, there is no way the ncaa is going to separate revenue producing from non, since many of the revenue producing ones keep the others going. And how would the small schools handle that?
I know a lot of athletes come from little money, but it is also a fact that this years out of state tuition at uconn is 42k (in state 24k). Yes, athletes are making a lot of $$ for the school, but lets not forget they are getting something worth $170,000 (and rising) in return.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

kid trains like a professional, you want him to perform like a professional, dont feed him like a 19 year old zit faced bio major. the importance of nutrition in athletic endeavors can't be emphasized enough.

I assure you that you can eat very healthy in the dining halls. It may not taste great, but you can eat very healthy. I may not understand you, but are you saying that with a stipend they'd eat like a professional athlete? These are teenagers and early 20s guys, I assure you a stipend won't accomplish that.

 

[David 76]

What planet are you living on? Look I support some kind of a stipend. But UConn's dining halls are open all weekend. So are most others. When student athletes are on campus for athletic-related programs, say practice over Christmas break, the school can provide them meals and most do. At most schools once your in the dining hall, they don't limit what you eat either. so this idea that the players starve because they have to eat dining hall food...well that's kind of crazy. As far as summer work, that's not the case. That they mostly choose to focus on their games is a choice. Tell the kids who work a couple of jobs while going to school and hope to scramble together enough cash to pay the next semester's tuition and graduate with debts how tough life is.

I was one of those people who worked my butt off in the summer. But if the coach tells a kid that if he wants to play next year, he needs to go to a bigs camp or gain strength and experience over the summer, the kid knows he has to go. BTW, that message begins at the middle school level if you are on a travel team (must play in an off-season league, must go to xyz skill camp).
Oh, and meal plans these days come with points that you spend. It is not open trough every mealtime you are around. Not sure which plan the athletes are on, but I know we ate a lot of extra food