Good question. I suspect they have to be enrolled and making "academic progress". The problem is academic progress is loosely defined and classes/majors are created to keep the players eligible more than to actually provide life/career skills.
Search Travis Hunter GPA
Not bashing anyone, questioning policy, one of the Colorado kids bragged he has never entered a classroom, maybe online learning.
You absolutely were going after Hunter when you said "Colorado stars"--just own it that you had no clue he's actually a great student
There are more **** at Colorado than Hunter. This is a general question about NIL and academics, I doubt you know what is going on at Colorado or any other school. Was reported one of the "students" bought a Rolls.
There's two--they have two stars at Colorado. Sanders and Hunter--you said "stars" not Sanders
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Yes, that's the requirement--where are you getting anything else?
Yeah, tell that bullsh&t to all the working families in America struggling to get by. Freshman getting millions before even playing a game. Yeah, they can't get paid enough.
Those "working families" don't have a skillset this kids have--fact not opinion
I agree with you. These kids should have to declare all NIL $, and then only receive need and/or academic merit based financial aid, like every other STUDENT. Since the athletic scholarship for tuition is viewed as a "pittance" by some, let's change the system to align to the current state of affairs.
You realize the courts ruled on this, right? NIL has no impact on a scholarship and legally can't.
I have a relative who is a professor at Pitt. He is currently teaching a class where 2 senior football players haven't shown up to class, taken an exam or turned in any work at all. He went through the process to let the designated athletic liason know. Hasn't even heard back from them. The FB players will be failing the class. Yeah, it probably happens at a lot of schools. There's not a lot of NFL talent at Pitt, so these guys will likely soon be out of school without degrees, and no future in professional football.
When Carson Beck was struggling, GA fans had seen enough of “LamboBoy”. I guess it was reported the he drives a Lamborghini around campus in Athens.
What does that have to do with the amount of money everything is making off these kids?
IMO College Sports should be played by "real" college students. I realize that ship has sailed but it doesn't make it right.
I'll tell ya what it has to do. It keeps raising ticket and streaming prices. Who pays for that? It raises hotel and restaurant prices. It's all connected. Then, folks expect alumni and others to pay NIL funds. Meanwhile, they're paying off their own student loans, if they even went to Penn State or college, while trying to take care of their own family and their college expenses.
To be fair, just because people are willing to play without being compensated doesn't mean they shouldn't be
NFL players make a ton of money with NIL outside the cap
So do all the conferences due to a TV contract
None of that has anything to do with a kid getting NIL money.
Everyone relevant can do that--it's how they want to spend their money
College football players not attending class. In other news, most men like beer. Seriously, that scenario is not new. You could have posted that decades ago.
Do you think kids that go to Catholic schools aren't getting some monetary reward?
At some schools, no there isn't. Kids an do 'world campus' type learning with the help of their advisors and be fine. These are not engineering majors or anyone who will have to do lab work though. I've had student athletes play their sport in college and have very little interaction with professors, lots of recorded lectures and one on one or small group tutoring. Baseball players miss so much of spring semester that many of them are almost all on line classes in the spring.
This is from about 5 years ago:
They ought to just pay the kids what they're worth and then let them do what they want with the money, including being a college student if they want. But don't make them be full time. Maybe the kid in your scenario would have taken just a couple courses per semester, thereby making some progress towards his preferred degree, while also getting the experience of playing college football.
Then let's talk about doing the correct thing here, which is establishing a minor league system for the NFL, completely separate from colleges/universities. That way the functionally illiterate players who don't make the NFL don't continue to make a mockery of higher learning.
