99bubble
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Ok so I’m going to go at it respectfully but from the other side possibly just because of my age (under 30). I understand and agree that it’s a blessing to have your college paid for playing a sport is fantastic. However since 2000 the game had started making a ridiculous amount of revenue off the backs of players that get paid zero from it. I saw a statistic that the profits gained from a few weekends of marquee matchups in the SEC could cover every scholarship on every SEC team and start tapping into the lower paid position coaches around the conference. I’m not going to waste a ton of time because I do not know if many will even read my opinion but to make it as short as possible, I don’t feel the NCAA or colleges should make so much money they can upgrade there stadiums every 5 years but these kids (look at inky Johnson) give there lives for a sport and some of there parents go home to no power or anything. Time to stop being ok with millionaires continuing to make millions, pretty much every one else involved gets paid very well, but the athletes must get nothing? No I don’t agree with that
Ok, so for you, socialism is the key. Let's let a few people decide what should or should not happen to an entity they have no stake in?! Right?! That's your point?
I can't, for the life of me, understand how someone would genuinely think they have the right to tell someone else how to live or run their business! If someone goes home to no power in their house why in the heck is that UT's problem?!! If you are truly worried about it, you go put the utility bill in YOUR name and pay it, all the time. You say the system is making money "off the backs of the players", what does that have to do with the price of tea in India?! If you DON'T want a free education, all wrapped up with facilities and pampering that almost none of us will ever enjoy in our lifetimes, then please...MOVE ON! There are literally thousands of kids waiting behind you to take that opportunity because, guess what, they don't want their power cut off one day like it was when they were kids! For some reason we (some in society) have decided that ANY struggle that they deem worthy, should be solved so people don't have to experience the pain. The truth, whether anyone wants to believe it or not, is that pain almost ALWAYS brings about growth, steels your resolve, and helps one persevere. Ease and comfort absolutely do not! You, in your desire to feel great about spending someone else's money for a cause you deem worthy, would take away the chance for someone to come to UT, work hard, make a good living, and change their family direction through hard work and dedication.
We have become ENTITLED and the worst part of it is we don't even realize it. It may be easy and sound good to say "they make millions and that person doesn't have electricity!!" but what you are ALWAYS saying, whether you like it or not, is that you are FOR stealing from one person and giving it to another that hasn't earned it. Again, YOU pay the utility bill if it bothers you. Because, one day, someone will come for you and take your money because, hey, you shouldn't have the ability to eat out while others do not.