Football athletes get free tuition, room and board, nutrition, meals, housing, coaching, medical care, rehab, tutoring, books, clothing, merch, car leases, you name it, and most of it at a premium level of service not just the bare minimums. Literally 4 years of their life completely paid for, entirely expense free, all while either being trained to be a future NFL athlete with exorbitant salaries and concurrent free education training to go to whatever alternative career they might want. All completely without spending a dime. They have incredibly privileged lifestyles starting in college, which is when they are also begging for your money. The benefits they get easily have a value of hundreds of thousands of dollars before these players even see a cent of NIL money. Why anyone would donate to these athletes when there are literally thousands upon thousands of more worthy causes with people that have far more unmet needs is beyond me. It's your money, do what you want. I'll never pay a dollar to any NIL fund, ever. If that means PSU can't compete with the big boys on the field then so be it.
Then to top it off the program makes hundreds of millions in revenue, coaches get paid millions per year, and they want to ask the general public who averages a salary of ~$60k for donations? Not a chance.
