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Originally posted by librasoul22
Football players DO get paid. Believe it. At my school, they drive around in Escalades, Hummers, whatever and wear platinum jewlery, latest namebrands, etc. If it doesn't come from their huge scholarships, it comes from Booster kickbacks. It happens.
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Same thing happens at LSU. I lived in the on-campus apartments, which were built because the NCAA doesn't allow "athlete housing" but if they are given preference in getting in...who's to say anything. I was super-lucky to actually get in the complex. The football players who lived there did whatever they wanted, were loud as all hell all day and night, TRASHED their apartments (which they were getting for free, when they cost everyone else $2K a semester).
These guys also got super-preferential treatement in scheduling classes, there was a big ole' scandal last year about NCAA violations because student tutors were writing papers/taking tests for them...and if all else failed, they paid off people. I know of one football player to pay off people he was doing a group project with, just so he wouldn't have to work.
Maybe at Podunksville U, the players need a stipend to live decently, but down in the SEC, they're doing just fine.