I know that this is a commonly held opinion. But it is substantially not correct. College players do receive an opportunity for an education and preparation for life after athletics. If there are schools where that is not the reality, they need to be dealt with rather than just issuing a blanket indictment of all universities. I have known many successful people who used exactly this opportunity to mature into the people they are today. The opinion you have posted is rather lazy and uninformed. And is not at all helpful in dealing with the bad apples - by saying everyone is evil, you give them a pass.
Not substantially correct? Literally, your next sentence was "college players do receive an opportunity for an education and preparation for life after athletics." If that's not an opinion question, then I don't know what is. That is definitely not
quantifiable because it's inherently subjective. Then you go onto say "I have known many successful people who used exactly this opportunity to mature into the people they are today." This is a little thing that I like to call
anecdotal evidence. Maybe you've heard of it. If not: "Something
anecdotal has to do with
anecdotes — little stories.
Anecdotal evidence is based on hearsay rather than hard facts. People like to share stories about things that happened to them, or that they heard about, to make a point. That kind of talk is
anecdotal: based on small, personal accounts." In other words, the people you know aren't statistically significant just because
you know them.
So the only "lazy" and "uninformed" argument here is yours. I am
objectively and
quantifiably saying that College Football Programs make millions of dollars (as in a
number) because people attend college football games to watch
college football players play football, and those
college football players are not compensated for the
value they are creating in any form. Oh, and by the way, the marginal cost (the cost of having one additional person) at any college to the college for giving out a scholarship is practically 0. It costs them
NOTHING to have an extra person sitting in a classroom. So the real cost to the University is the amount of money that it takes to print the degree (and I assume food costs, tutoring, housing, etc) that comes with an athlete's full scholarship. So don't come in here and tell me that my argument is "lazy" and "uniformed" and "unsubstantiated" when I can back mine up with hard data and actual metrics and yours is based on a few people you know.