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every school pays players a monthly stipend based on cost of living to upperclassmen living off campus. This is never reported by the simpletons making this argument. They also get access to college education worth $100-300,000 tuition plus medical assistance, training support, travel allowance, team merchandise, books and tutoring services, training and exercise assistance, room and board. Stop blaming the NCAA for the NFL and NBA's failure to create viable minor leagues. Not a single recruit is required to play college sports. You are projecting professional league's failures upon universities that have every right to determine their own mission. Recruits use colleges to improve their professional profile and skills just as much as colleges use recruits. No NFL team would have given a shit about Johnny Manziel without the spotlight he earned as a student athlete at a national prominent school like Texas A&M with high profile alumni and TV Contracts. Johnny Manziel walked into that program and its media profile earned him lifetime monetary riches. The average major college may invest as much as $400,000-500,000 in a single athlete over 4-5 years. Its a pretty damn good deal especially since many of these kids would never be given such an opportunity otherwise-whether they are a one of the 1% who makes it big or one of the 99% who never make an athletic professional career in one of the 20-30 male/female sports sponsored by each school. Critism should be directed at leagues such as the NFL and NBA-the argument is ridiculous in every other male/female sport. I think about 2% of comments that I read on this subject on various sites have any true understanding of these facts-I don't know why these facts don't get out-but most don't understand even the basics of the argument
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