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[QUOTE="Bayside44, post: 3472950, member: 343"]
“But what people don’t know — let me ask you,” Boeheim said. “How much does a basketball player get at Syracuse right now? What’s he get?”

I said $74,000, the rough cost of attendance at Syracuse that a scholarship would cover.

“In the neighborhood — that’s what you think, and that’s what everybody thinks,” Boeheim said. “But it’s not. Every one of our players — because we can feed them breakfast, they can go over to the snack area there and get a salad and wrap during the day, then we feed them after practice — every one of our players takes his board in cash and his cost of attendance. How much you think that is?”

I took a second to think. “Probably another…”

He finished the thought. “$1,400 a month.”

Boeheim said he didn’t realize players got that much until his son who plays for the team received the check.

“You get a check for $1,400 each month and you have to buy your food out of that. But we give you two or three meals a day. So, now, if you’re a needs student who I worry about more, you get a Pell Grant for $5,000. So now if you’re a needs student, you get $2,000 a month, plus your tuition.”

“Is there a specific place that’s supposed to go, the $2,000?” I asked.

“In your pocket,” he replied.

That surprised me. “Just for whatever you want?”

“For whatever you want,” Boeheim said.
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