I’m not expecting a poor kid with borderline grades to understand the historical significance of their decision. Honestly, I think most kids white black rich or poor just see programs that are on tv and winning. But what the parents and handlers or mentors do is just disgusting. And they use that argument quite a lot.
So let’s say you take that 250k. I really hope it ain’t cash cause you can’t deposit it in a bank. And if you find a way to do it your getting taxed on it. So maybe it’s crypto or maybe some sort of financial vehicle that you can shelter it from Uncle Sam.
250k ain’t breaking you out of poverty. Maybe pay some bills go on vacation. Down payment on a house maybe, furniture? a car? And now what?
But getting injured is the one that really gets me.
How many players on D1 suffer career ending injuries now a days. With the exception of congenital conditions like Ross and AR;
not even a **** pelvic fracture keeps dudes out the league (tua).
But there is an evil entity lurking in college called “loss of draft value insurance”.
The sec is notorious for telling kids about it. And as some people have stated “it isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on”
Averaging at a cost of 8k per million of coverage. No one ever gets the total amount. It’s also unregulated by the ncaa and insurance agents get huge commissions on it. And no one knows who’s paying for it.
I get it. Get whatever you can and who gives a sht. The **** country was founded by slave owners.
But that mentality is what has been stopping progress of minorities for a very long time.
Now you have screws in your leg and that 250 k is gone and all you have to show for it is a 4 year old luxury vehicle and you can’t even pay for the maintenance. It’s sofla and the landscape is full dudes like this and it had nothing to do with an injury. Making the league is hard. Staying in it is even harder. Making it long enough to earn a pension harder still.
All of the ncaa is guilty of earning money of a players back and then saying here is some cash for your troubles. But if the vast majority of ncaa players will end up in the same boat. Then I would prefer to be the one standing there knowing that neither I nor my family sold out.