Joe Rogan and Arian Foster talk about what’s wrong with College Sports. Arian Foster also breaks down the schedule of a college athlete.
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #928
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foster was a DIVA
Let's not discount the FREE education they get, usually worth tens of thousands of dollars, that all of the other students that are ACTUALLY there for an education have go into debt for.
I knew i liked arian foster he looks like hes in a good place and knows who he is
There was a business analysis of the worth of college athletes. In the case of Johnny Manziel's last year at Texas A&M, between ticket sales, merch, endowments…all of it… Johnny's worth to the university was $300M dollars. That's 1.5X the entire cap for an NFL team!!! The idea that "blue backpack" classes added up to $300M for Manziel is nuts. And it's only recently that they even fed college athletes well enough. It took several high profile athletes including some in the Final Four to speak up. After a win, reporters surrounding this one young man asking him how he felt and he was like, "you, man, I'm just hungry" "you mean to win?" "Nah. I mean they don't give us enough to EAT!!!" It was crazy. Now the NCAA thinks that by begrudgingly giving student athletes enough healthy calories to function is enough compromise to not have to pay them as well as keeping them from using their own likeness for profit…
Worse are the walk-ons who are PAYING for their education and literally getting zero benefit beyond getting to play the game. Those folks are REALLY getting taken advantage of…
From an English perspective, I've always found it amazing how American sport works.
For instance, there is absolutely no link between education and pro sports. Probably the most high-profile British footballer of the last generation made he pro-debut at 16 and was playing for the national side by 18. His best years were probably aged 19-22.
Had there been an educational requirement, I highly doubt he'd have ever made it.