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Message: [QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 5462373, member: 39"] To my point... The system isn't perfect, but let's not cry poverty and that the system is not designed to benefit kids. It is sad that this whole entire NIL situation completely devalues the educational component that these student-athletes benefit from. How many regular people would have ZERO student loans at the end of earning a four-year degree? I understand a lot of soccer players and other Olympic sport student-athletes still need to pay, but the majority of D1 golf, tennis, volleyball, basketball, football, and softball players go to school for free. And many others receive a major discounted rate that the normal student does not. They deserve to receive scholarship benefits, don't get me wrong, and they do help market the University on a grand stage, but how many of the other students on campus who aren't on athletic scholarship would have catered meals or special dining accommodations, receive gear packages with sneakers, shirts, shorts, sweatsuits, backpacks, and anything else that you can think of each year, access to medical care through athletic training, personal trainers by the way of strength & conditioning, PR and marketing teams that directly influence and help your brand by way of the SID & marketing staff, plus receive experiences traveling all around the country and around the world to be a part of the team? The answer is zero percent of the average student body receives anything close to that. And that, by the way, costs real money that isn't taken into consideration when all of these analysts like Jay Bilas believe kids should be given the world. As you have seen from many departments around the country, hard-working people are being let go from their jobs due to cost cutting directly related to NIL payments. It is sad, and is going to have a trickle-down impact on all of the Olympic sport experiences and the experience of all student-athletes. [/QUOTE]

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