It's rather foolish to think that these students are going to get rich on NILs. A lot of them will get free food-- all you can eat (if you dare), clothes, and even %discount. It never ceases to amaze me how many people view college athletes as getting everything free-- un-deservingly and rather ungraciously. There have been much talk about the WBB team not breaking even-- that there are in the red in regards to yearly dollars and cents. But, I would like those holding free-tuition signs up to calculate what the real worth of the team to the University of Conn. Almost every ex-player at Uconn mention the Program when interviewed. For example, a few days ago Sue Bird who left the school over a decade(?) ago did not failed to mention the Uconn Program and coaches alongside the great teams/franchise she played for in an interview with Holly. Take a look at how these ex-players have and are conducting themselves. As long as there is revenue sports at universities in the U.S., it is difficult for me not to see athletes as (below)minimum wage workers who are producing an enormous surplus to the university. Maybe Liv's NIL is little more than a second helping of the salad she is denied at the dorms. I vaguely recalled that a few years ago one or more MBB players were raising hunger as a problem! Perhaps we should get CD-- C. Dotty that is, to write a book about the slippy slope love-hate relations that some Uconn fans have with players./They are always becoming what we do not want them to be. Or, what we really secretly think of them-- as free-loaders, selfish, too political, etc.!
