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For the dopes claiming College Football players shouldn’t be paid because their scholarship: I’ll be using UK as an example. FCS D1 teams are allowed 85 full rides. Now let’s imagine they’re all out of state students where the tuition is roughly $30,680

If the coach uses all 85 of those scholarships, that comes out to around $2,607,800 in tuition worth for one year. WHOA BIG NUMBER! That should be enough for the kid, why pay them? Right? Wrong.

The average D1 college football program generates around $30,000,000 a year in revenue. WHOA BIGGER NUMBER! So what does that remaining $27 odd million dollars go to?

Stadium upkeep and staffing? Sure. But there’s also concession/merch sales and general sponsorships (lookin at you, Kroger) to help foot that bill. There’s still so much money off the top that is being taken in as profit.

The point is these kids are bringing in all of this money. They’re generating enough revenue in one year to cover ten years of 85 full ride scholarships. They’re literally returning their scholarship worth ten fold.

“Cool, but it’s a business”, says that guy that was third string kicker on your high school team. Well, BRYSON, these kids also give up every ounce of their free time. It’s a full time job what they do, and are still expected to stay on top of their grades.

Let’s say someone’s there on an academic full ride, that’s awesome, but they don’t have as many requirements to keep their scholarship as athletes do, and they have exponentially more free time to be an actual college kid.

TL;DR: pay these college athletes. Pay them for their time and pay them for their contributions you profit off of. Then maybe some dude named Doug can have a fucking opinion about a team walking out of practice in solidarity to bring attention to police brutality.