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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 5267797, member: 7631"] I don't like the movement of the players nor the vagaries of NIL. But to add to what Bone Dog has said: In the hard sciences, the vast majority of graduate students are supported in graduate school. You might be guaranteed a year or two of support (tuition plus stipend) as a teaching assistant, then join a research group and spend the next few years as a research assistant. In many larger schools, they accept way more students than they can accommodate in order to have enough TAs. Then they fail half them on the PhD qualifying exams, and they're forced to either take a "terminal" masters or go elsewhere for the PhD. So universities can be guilty of using students in areas other than athletics. IIRC, TAs at the University of California tried to unionize several years ago, don't remember what happened with that. [/QUOTE]