Well, people that earned any type of scholarship very likely worked extremely hard to get to that point. Top Football players, musicians, academic wizards etc. are not ordained at birth. Earn! The argument that “ you got your’s with a full ride scholarship” puts you in the camp of setting the market for that particular skill set. This is America and you re not King. The argument smacks of jealousy.
I've already expressed in multiple posts my reasons for being opposed to the huge sums of money students can earn from NIL for doing essentially nothing except endorsing a product or service that they probably don't even use. It's phony from top to bottom.
Here are some of my earlier posts that express this position quite clearly:
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Lots of downsides to NIL and in my opinion no real upsides. Unless, of course, you think that money is the most important thing an 18 your old needs.
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There is nothing wrong with our economic system. It's the degradation of morals and values that is the problem with this country now. And paying an 18 year old a million dollars for having done nothing to deserve it is a prime example.
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And therein lies the fallacy with the whole NIL idea. There is no real worth in it. It is all phony.
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But they are not playing for 'peanuts', as you put it. They are receiving scholarships and expenses coverage worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Football players receiving things of value from local businesses is not new. Some of the best examples date back about 10 years ago to Ohio State where players were getting cars and free tattoos. Only back then the players didn't have to say anything publicly to get these freebies. It was all under the table, because it was illegal.
So now it's been changed and all the players have to do is say publicly that they like the company that is going to give them them gift. That's it.
Now the exact same thing that used to be illegal is perfectly legal provided the player declares his approval of the company giving him the gift.
And that begs the next question. Suppose a company wants to give a player money or a gift, but the player never makes a public statement endorsing that company. Can the company do that if they want? Or is it totally predicated on the player saying something nice first?
And that raises the next question. How often can the company give a gift to the player and how often does he have to repeat his praise for them? If he says something nice one time, can the company keep giving him things year after year?