Our universities train not only our athletes but many of the top athletes around the globe. How much longer can college football subsidize foreign athletes in all of these sports few people pay attention to? We're having to pay athletes to play football, basketball and baseball now. How much money will be leftover for others?
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There’s not much but it seems it’s not so much a funding issue as it is the universities’ hands are tied thanks to the NCAA if you believe Vanderbilt.
“A spokesperson for Vanderbilt, which is in Nashville, Tennessee, referred NBC News to a statement it issued on its website, in which the university said it provided Fraley “with the maximum financial aid consistent with NCAA regulations.”
“We also help our student-athletes navigate name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities, acknowledging that these are completely separate and independent of the university by NCAA regulations and state law,” the university said Friday. “We congratulate Veronica not only on her many athletic accomplishments but also for completing her courses to earn her master’s degree. It is exciting that this Vanderbilt graduate is representing the United States at the 2024 Olympic Games.””
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“A spokesperson for Vanderbilt, which is in Nashville, Tennessee, referred NBC News to a statement it issued on its website, in which the university said it provided Fraley “with the maximum financial aid consistent with NCAA regulations.”
“We also help our student-athletes navigate name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities, acknowledging that these are completely separate and independent of the university by NCAA regulations and state law,” the university said Friday. “We congratulate Veronica not only on her many athletic accomplishments but also for completing her courses to earn her master’s degree. It is exciting that this Vanderbilt graduate is representing the United States at the 2024 Olympic Games.””
Flavor Flav and Alexis Ohanian team up to help Olympian Veronica Fraley pay her rent
Fraley posted on X a day before her Olympics debut.
I don't have an informed opinion on it (like that ever stops anybody here), but it seems like a good topic.
Maybe it's the trade-off for their governments marshalling their masses to make more stuff cheaply for our insatiable consumer azzes.
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