That's not reality.Essexfenwick wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:51 pm Give the players a real education.
Pay them their scholarships as income. The government can tax the check. Then the players can monetize their sports value in the open market and have that taxed. Hopefully by the end they will have enough to pay their tuition and play on the team.
Boy … they would learn so much more about life and really be critical thinkers and doers after that exposure to reality.
Reality would be to apply this idea of yours to ALL students, not just athletes.
If we're going to do that, apply it to all students. Get a scholarship? Tax that as income.
And that doesn't even handle the elephant in the room-----taxpayers, both Federal and State subsidizing many Universities ability to operate. Hopkins alone gets $1 Billion+ per year from Uncle Sam. That pays for a lot of overhead, to put it mildly.