No. They're not getting paid by the car dealer to attend class.ChairmanOfTheBoard wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:41 am i have a question. what exactly are the students being paid for? is it being a student-athlete, or an athlete? i know it's "identity" but really, behind that identity is the sport, and there'd be no intercollegiate sport without college.
in other words, if you accept that a... car dealer... is paying a "student-athlete", the moment you don't show up to class, you should be docked. like any other job. (this is a job now isnt it?)
They're getting paid by the car dealer, yes? The car dealer decides the rules. Could be a year long deal. Could be a single commercial and the transaction is over.
The tuition is paid by the school. The school gets to decide the rules surrounding that.
The playing time, meetings, practices, code of conduct etc. is decided by the coach. The coach gets to decide the rules on that.
In short, it's complicated.