[NU Sports] Pay to Play

[Beamsley, Jeff]

Or simply increase the scholarship to cover the current gap in expenses.  The only athletes who even receive full rides these days are football and basketball players.  Everybody else gets a partial scholarship and has to make up the difference with loans, work, and/or family help.  
 
Since there appears to be no practical way to keep boosters and their money out of sports, I agree that it makes sense to reduce the demand by making sure that athletes who are banned from working can at least cover their expenses.
 
Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Jim Leonard
Sent: Sat 5/21/2011 3:31 PM
To: Northwestern Wildcats
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Pay to Play



I have been saying for years that I think making loans available to scholarship
athletes is the right middle ground. Just enough to cover that $4,000 or so a
year that someone else mentioned. Ideally most kids wouldn't take the loans
because their families would help, but it would solve the booster/summer job
controversy and prevent the slippery slope of SEC signing bonuses.

Go Cats!
Jim




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From: "hakirsch at aol.com" <hakirsch at aol.com>
To: Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net>; nwu-sports at tssi.com; airsnod at aol.com
Sent: Sat, May 21, 2011 2:38:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Pay to Play

Dennis

Give up. Just because you disagree with athletes getting paid (as I do) doesn't
make it a liberal cause. I would bet that the SEC would be the conference most
likely to embrace the concept and the last time I looked at voter patterns, the
South was not the bastion of wide eyed liberals.


Harry
------Original Message------
From: Dennis W. Brandt
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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Pay to Play
Sent: May 21, 2011 10:57 AM

> But those struggling students can take any job they want to supplement
> their scholarship without scrutiny, something athletes can't do.
> Additionally, as an NROTC student we got a couple hundred bucks a months
> for miscellaneous expenses. I have no trouble with any scholarship
> student, athletic or otherwise receiving some money, as long as every
> school in each division pays the same.
>
And then you go into the military for whatever number of years.  Do football
players have to serve with the NFL?

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