Is JMU waiting by the phone for CUSA?

[alvinkayak6]

In a way players do get more, maybe not legally but they do. As an FBS recruit they will get wooed more and maybe given more stuff by schools and better treatment, because colleges are spending more on them. They get more free gear, better gear, more favors because now they are playing at the big stage, etc. One thing to remember is that cost also depends on the school. Furman is really expensive because it's private and those players are getting a lot more money towards their education than a player at App State or Georgia Southern already.

Players are given free feed (meal plan), free books and classes (scholarship), lots of free gear, often preferential treatment such as tutors given to them or teachers giving them more wiggle room on assignments and due dates, and not to mention they are housed for free as well.

By paying college players directly they become professionals and thus the bar is risen on how you treat them. Also, do you see how many rookies and young players in the NFL blow their money? Could you imagine an 18 or 19 or 20 year old and how they would blow the money paid to them? That money would be long gone 90% of the time within a 2 weeks of giving it to them. That would just be more waste with our tax dollars, since we technically are paying for their scholarships with our donations to our alma mater and tax dollars. Do you really want to give an 18 or 19 year old who has no clue how to manage money say 10,000 of of our money to blow while you are living paycheck to paycheck? People seem to forget we are the ones who are essentially paying for everything. Without us watching and going to games there is no advertising so no TV revenue, etc. Directly and indirectly you are paying for all of this. I think it's stupid to want to give an 18 year old money to blow when the rest of us don't have that money to blow. They need to worry about studying and practice and not how to spend that 10 grand the school paid them on their friends for parties and all. Paying them just opens a can of worms that you can't ever close.

I appreciate the fact that you hold 18 and 19 year olds to higher standards of economic decision-making than the universities themselves.