re: Georgia's Name, Image, and Likeness bill signed into law by Brian Kemp

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Nowadays, you also have mandatory weight lifting and team related activities with compliance, nutrition, personal development (financial literacy, professionalism, etc), media training and then mandatory tutoring/study hall that takes up the whole evening after practice. The time commitment to not only stay on the team but to remain eligible and game ready well exceeds 40 hours. If you want to count tutoring as academics, you’re talking about 4 hours of class time each day from 8-Noon and about 3 hours of tutoring each evening. Sunday-Friday, that’s about 38 hours a week.

Sleep deprivation is a bitch, too.

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No offense.
But it is college.
There are millions of students attending class, study sessions, keeping up with classes.
And none of that pays the students a dime. It actually costs $50+k plus living expenses in order to do that.
So millions of kids either work 1 or 2 jobs while doing their studies or take the burden of loans that they may be paying on for a decade or both.

Being a college athlete is hard as shite.
Like the military, they are told what, when, where, etc.. but like the military, their needs are met. Bills arent piling up. Their "struggles" are foreign to real life (paying rent, foos on the table, transporting to work).