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Message: [QUOTE="JordyG, post: 2588538, member: 6819"] Half of my education was free due to grants. Yet, I didn't have to perform on the field. I wasn't in the gym or in film sessions. That is a job. I worked 30 hrs a week to support my apartment and personal sundries for which I was [B]paid[/B]. The performance of these athletes on the field is a [B]job [/B]for which they are not allowed remuneration, nor the hint of one. Sorry, but your argument sounds more like jealousy than opinion. It looks to me as if it's the other way around. Without basketball and football most others collegiate sports couldn't be funded. Hopefully that wasn't the case in your sport for your D1 career. BB and football athletes may be treated like royalty because they are cash cows. Commodities. And they became commodities the minute the camera turn on them. When their careers are finished at 30 or so, what is the future of these athletes whose education was "burden free"? Where are the "free meals", and "better housing" then? Where are the life "tutors" that most of these guys need after retirement. Let's not of course talk (too much) about the physical toil placed on these "pampered" athletes whose lifespans are significantly shorter than yours or mine. Who live from 35 on in their "retirement" as cripples, in pain, or with significant concussion issues. Does that hold for you? These athletes pay for their privilege, then they are tossed aside. Was that the facts in your case? Or did you receive a "burdened" education as I did and make a future with it? [/QUOTE]

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