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I'll just leave these here...
As a former NCAA Athlete myself I think a lot of regular students don't understand our daily schedule so I will put it all out there for ya'll to see
Monday-Friday 5am - wake up 630 weights 730 morning classes till 10 11ish. Quick snack at 12 then practice at 1 to 3. Class at 4 to 8. Dinner at 8 then tutoring somewhere in between 8 and 12pm.
Its a hectic life. For people saying athlete's should not get paid think about it we spend over 40 hours a week on sports and then add in being a "STUDENT" that's a lot of work. I'm not saying pay them 50k or something but 3-5k a year would be reasonable considering most of us can't have a job. Athletics is our job and when schools make millions off of our talents we should receive some sort of compensation for that.
Yeah yeah we get a free degree.. thats absolute BS, just because schools give out scholarships doesn't mean all of them are fully funded. I'm talking maybe 40% of all Division 1 football programs are fully funded so the other 60% has to work with what they have. Some schools might not have the same amount of $ but the Athlete puts in the same amount of work on and off the field.
It amazes me how people put collegiate athlete's on a pedestal when most of us won't even go pro or have the ability to go pro.
I took out a loan for college and even was on scholarship...
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Just saw that I can get the PS4 for points on my Credit card reward system. Took all my strength to hold off ordering it. The points tradeoff right now doesn't make sense. The Cash Back option on the card would leave me $250 in cash after buying the system from Best Buy so will likely go that route once the prices come down and the glitches get fixed.
This also reminds me of how a student group or organization is forced to fund themselves through the school, which then takes a portion of the funds you raise.
For example, with my senior design project we had to raise the funding on our own, and while some of the funds we raised came from our department, a percentage of every penny we raised for our project went to a completely different part of the school. This on a project for VT and representing VT.
Yeah, agree on the RGIII thing. Vick not winning the Heisman was just.....stupid. He was clearly the best player in College Football that year. I don't care what anyone has to say about Mike Vick's NFL career - he's one of the greatest college football players of all time.
Best days of VT right there! I'm with you man.
RG3 can't touch him
Winston had a girlfriend at the time. This was his was probably his side girl and most likely it was consensual because they were seen together a lot. She probably found out he had a girlfriend and got pissed off.
A girl threatened to call rape on me once because I didn't want to go out with her again and we didn't even have sex. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
But anyway, it's so that weird cases and charges don't cause a player to lose playing time. This could be one of them since we aren't allowed to know much about the case. Just because you're charged doesn't mean you did it. Take self defense, people get charged with felonies for defending themselves go through court and it's dropped.
On the topic of bold text, how do you use a bold font in HTML?
Any chance this leads to that mythical commercial airport in Blacksburg? I'm thinking something similar to Roanoke's. That would make coming back east for games SO MUCH better.
You're right -- seems to be gone now after posting this when it was like that for more than a week. Weird.
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my two year old has 'hokiebird's trip across virginia' or some such. some of the illustrations are hillarious, especially when hokiebird finds himself on the "grounds" of the "university."
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# | The intersection between the FSU Athletic and Academic department VT is pretty hospitable about start-ups, and from what I hear, they are pretty common in the engineering disciplines. I was in the life sciences, so the issues were mostly with intellectual property, patenting, etc. Basically, anything a grad student does is property of the institution and the student never stands to gain anything from it, even if it turns out to be a wonder-drug worth millions. It's a complex situation.
In some sense, I can see how athletes have it made. On the other hand, they certainly are being used by the institution for profit. Then too, all a university really is these days is an institution to make money. Consider research grants - VT has an overhead rate of 65% with several big federal entities. So 65% of all grant money goes to the institution, not the faculty member and his/her team. So if I'm the head of the lab and need $350,000 (a modest amount) for a project, then I really need to ask for $1 million so that VT can have their 65% cut and I still get the money I need for my work. Now THAT should make one think about where tuition dollars are going, if the overhead is going to facilities and "keeping the lights on" as the people in charge put it.
WOW, That's why I'm not getting my Phd!
In all seriousness, I feel bad for any student who's prevented from entering the open market. If you have something you can make money from, whether it's a smile on a commercial or tech start up, you should be able to persue that opportunity. I had buddies who worked for the Athletic Department Video 'team', Filming every practice and game and then editing it in exchange for a scholarship. A lot of them did freelance work on the side for spending cash. That's how it should be, for athletes and grad students.
Also, I believe about 5% of college athletes go pro, and 'going pro' includes the Sean Glennons of the world who are cut after a couple weeks (Though I agree, I think all of us would like to work even just a few weeks at that pay scale).
- Athletes cannot persue any private ventures, which IMO in the day of internet advertising and tech start-ups is very unfair.
- You are not the face of your university's marketing program.
A more legitimate comparison is an Athlete and Grad Student. Both work about 20 hours a week and are compensated with tuition. The difference? The Grad Student could accept a couple hundred dollars to appear in a local commercial. The athlete cannot. How is that fair?
The new features on both are incredible. But I just don't play video games like I used to. Waiting for the bugs to be worked out and the price to go down is fine with me.
Look at all of us being civil and resonable! For that, I give you +1 for a levelheaded response, which deserves the proper response from me.
There's so many NCAA rules, some are bound to get broken, some on accident, some for bad reasons, and some for good reasons.
This, I think, is the biggest issue facing college sports, whether it be football, basketball, or even cricket. The instutition, being the NCAA, is so arcane and backward thinking they are actually harming themselves.
(although when a visiting recruit stays with a host player, I'm sure that player takes him to parties, introduces him to girls, etc., but that's speculation)
This would not surprise me at all. I mean, that's what you want to do if you were hosting some big-name recruits and wanted to show what college life was all about at Virginia Tech.
There's definitely free tutoring for students (at least for mechanical engineering there was, I used it for 3 or so classes). Not much of a difference between practicing 20 hours a week in exchange for free tuition and working 20 hours a week to earn tuition money (currently $5,727.50/semester according to the Bursar). Beyond that, you're not a marketing tool for your university, the athlete is.
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12 years 8 months
# | The intersection between the FSU Athletic and Academic department 20 hours a week? Sure, that's what it says on the stipend contract, but it's nowhere near true. During my Ph.D., I routinely worked 60-80 hours a week. Try telling any advisor that you're not allowed to work more than 20 hours and they'll tell you to find a new line of work ;)
When I was in grad school, it was also a condition of my contract that I was not allowed to obtain income from any other source - no part time work, nothing. I believe the grad school has relaxed this requirement a bit, but you have to demonstrate significant need for them to allow you to get extra work or finances. Your advisor also may have something to say about it, as well.
I don't know where I come down on the whole student-athlete debate, and was considering the comparison of an athlete with a grad student. I'm conflicted. An athlete gets a similar deal that I did in grad school, except that when he's done he can make millions, or at least a few hundred thousand per year. Me? I paid my dues, worked (basically) below minimum wage (considering all the hours I actually worked) for five years to get a Ph.D. and am now supported by a highly sought-after federal grant that pays me just below the average salary of a high-school janitor.
This . . . is . . . awesome!
Happy 900th turkey leg. :)
That's definitely a classic. My niece also loves "It's Hokie Gameday," which we picked up for her at the Bookstore last year for Christmas. I try to take advantage of any opportunity we have to brainwash teach her from an early age.
Yeah, it really does boil down to the NCAA being such a farce that teams really do just dare them to do something. The best they can do often times is a slap on the wrist which does nothing but say, "hey, don't do that again or you'll make us look bad." Administrators and professors are scared of the athletic departments and so is the NCAA, so who is there to put a check on the kids, when the individuals schools don't even really get checked until a situation is completely out of control? If a professor fails a student athlete, he is ridiculed for being too hard or for failing the school. If the NCAA cracks down on a school, that losses the school money which in turn would probably make the NCAA loss some money. The system is built to crumble at any sign of rebellion. The NCAA is either going to always be too strict and be considered 'overlords' or they are going to be too lenient and be considered soft and a joke.