April 21, 2015 · 9:36 AM

“Some things … in certain areas may be out of whack.”

No shit, Sherlock… er, Larry Scott.

But it’s not like it’s a job, right?

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21 responses to ““Some things … in certain areas may be out of whack.””

  1. lamontsanford
    April 21, 2015 at 10:15 AM

    No…its not a job. Jobs are different. The jobs I worked during college didn’t cover tuition, rent, or food–much less a stipend. They also didn’t come with a tutor…or advanced looks at the tests. I am not saying that they aren’t exploited–they are. But I would have gladly been exploited to get a much easier route to good grades and no student loans to pay off later.

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    • lamontsanford
      April 21, 2015 at 10:16 AM

      And I am willing to bet that I didn’t get any more sleep than they do.

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      • OrlandoDawg
        April 21, 2015 at 10:39 AM

        I hope you weren’t a business major. Just because you have a job at a junkyard doesn’t mean the CEO of Coke doesn’t have one.

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    • The Quincy Carter of Accountants
      April 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM

      C’mon. This is intellectually dishonest. You cannot write an entire paragraph that is dripping with condescension about how student athletes have a better deal than you did and then throw in “but I’m not saying their not exploited!” By saying that you would like to be exploited in that way you are absolutely saying they are not exploited. You should own that.

      You’re entitled to any opinion you want, but you can’t have both.

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    • PTC DAWG
      April 21, 2015 at 12:50 PM

      I disagree, they are not exploited.

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  2. Debby Balcer
    April 21, 2015 at 11:21 AM

    Can anyone summarize the article can links don’t work for me.

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    • Senator Blutarsky
      April 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM

      Here’s the gist:

      Pac-12 athletes spend an average of 50 hours per week on their sport and are often “too exhausted to study effectively,” a Pac-12 study revealed this month.

      A sampling of 409 conference athletes found that while they are “generally satisfied”, they are “stressed” and time demands from their sports create “anxiety and a loss of sleep that hinders academic and athletic performance.” The study also concluded that physical exhaustion is a “major issue.”

      The respondents were generally split evenly between genders and spread across several sports.

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      • Debby Balcer
        April 21, 2015 at 11:37 AM

        Thanks.

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      • Just Chuck (The Other One)
        April 21, 2015 at 1:11 PM

        If you follow the link and get the CBS page instead of the article referred to in the post, notice that the top of the CBS page there is a “sports” button. When you get to the sports page there is a button called NCAAFB. If you click that, you can usually find the article the Senator referred to.

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        • pete
          April 21, 2015 at 2:39 PM

          Thanks, now I can see what I’ve been missing on all of these CBS links.

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        • What fresh hell is this?
          April 21, 2015 at 7:20 PM

          Is there any way to avoid the CBS redirect?

          I’ve been using the workaround for a long time but depending on the good Senator’s post it may or may not be apparent to which article he is referring.

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  3. JCDAWG83
    April 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM

    If playing sports is that stressful and terrible, the players should quit. No one is holding a gun to their head.

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    • Twistification
      April 21, 2015 at 11:52 AM

      Sure, but if you love playing a sport for a college, is it too much to ask for an appropriate sport/study/leisure balance?

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      • reipar
        April 21, 2015 at 12:32 PM

        What is this appropriate balance you speak of? Clearly I choose the wrong profession! 🙂

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      • JCDAWG83
        April 21, 2015 at 1:30 PM

        It’s not too much to ask, but it’s up to each individual player to decide what is the appropriate balance. If a kid feels like he/she is under too much pressure because of the sports requirements, they should quit the team and focus on studies and leisure and play intramural sports if they love the sport.

        I know of several college students who chose not to play varsity sports because of the time commitment. Several were on teams for a year or two and then quit due to the demands on their time. If football players are stressed out because of time demands by playing, they have to decide if the stress is worth the reward.

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    • Senator Blutarsky
      April 21, 2015 at 12:43 PM

      If the schools can’t operate their programs without violating NCAA rules, then they should quit operating sports programs. No one is holding a gun to their heads.

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      • JCDAWG83
        April 21, 2015 at 1:33 PM

        Or… if they repeatedly violate NCAA rules, the NCAA should kick them out. If the rules are too hard to comply with, I agree, the schools should opt out of NCAA sports.

        Colleges are not life support systems for NFL and NBA farm teams. The money tail is wagging the dog in college sports now. Something is going to change, maybe soon, maybe later, but change is on the way.

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    • PTC DAWG
      April 21, 2015 at 12:51 PM

      Agree, just another way to coddle the athlete.

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  4. Cojones
    April 21, 2015 at 12:07 PM

    Dang!, Dang!, Dang!, folks. This whole article is subscribed to by the Pac-12 and plays into support of Delany’s Freshman Ineligility drive and smells to high heaven.

    If players need to study or sleep more, they can do so while undergoing medical treatment and traveling; two activities that take up most of their non-practice time. “Volunteer” practice is the other one and it sounds like these poor devils are just torn as to what they need to do to support the time needed for studies even from this trumped-up piece of shit article.

    If this isn’t held up to ridicule, it will support more following articles from the Big-10, Big-12, etc. to the same tune and give added impetus to Delany’s heart-rendering cry for college freshmen athletes not to play until acclimated to college studies. Straw men and red herrings are the order of the day with this contrived piece of shit.

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  5. PTC DAWG
    April 21, 2015 at 12:48 PM

    Link and stream CBS shows….awesome.

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  6. ASEF
    April 21, 2015 at 2:34 PM

    My mother and I had to wait an hour to eat at her favorite restaurant last May ($50 a head or higher) waiting for the Georgetown volleyball team to clear out. My two thoughts were: “Wait a minute. This must be setting G-town back about $1,500.” And, “Shouldn’t they be on a bus or something back to school instead of doing the 2-hour gourmet restaurant thing?”

    The money in college athletics encourages coaches and administrators to abuse the powers they have, and extending real protections into that environment is a worthy and necessary step. That’s why I get so frustrated with the “show me the money” emphasis that has taken over NCAA reform. Paying the players in that report a few extra bucks isn’t improving the quality of their education or college experience much at all. Putting real barriers and restrictions on the demands their coaches and ADs toss at them would.

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