While it's true that athletes get a lot of support (at least for money-making sports like football), that doesn't make it okay! Most college athletes aren't goi

While it's true that athletes get a lot of support (at least for money-making sports like football), that doesn't make it okay! Most college athletes aren't going to go pro, and so getting a rushed and watered-down education is not serving their best interests in their career beyond. Of course they're adults and how much they learn is up to them, but increasing the time and travel commitment of athletics greatly increases the pressure and need to rely on this "academic support", even more so than they do is today. Also...while the football players will probably be fine, the same cannot be said about all students. For example, marching band also requires heavy time commitments and lots of travel, but these students receive little funding and no academic support. Last year when my school's football team went to a bowl game, the team was of course flown out and had a great time while my friends on the marching band came back with horror stories. The school was supposed to handle all the travel arrangements, but they consistently cheaped out and forgot about important things like food -- the whole band was loaded up into a stuffy tour bus for 16 hours without a single meal. Or, consider less-funded athletic departments like the University of Oregon's beach volleyball team. UO is a top athletic school with a Nike sponsorship deal and a huge budget; the football team (in)famously wears brand new uniforms each week, whereas less-profitable sports are so badly underfunded that the school is under Title IX investigation for mistreatment of women athletes: https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/07/oregon-ducks-beach-volleyball-players-detail-disparate-treatment-that-experts-say-could-violate-title-ix.html https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/07/oregon-ducks-beach-... > The team practices and plays home games in a city park. The players, who do not receive athletic scholarships, have had to use a public restroom with no doors on the stalls. At times, they’ve driven hundreds of miles for games and stayed three or four to a room and had to share beds. These students' situations are going to get a LOT worse now that they're competing entirely against teams from the opposite side of the country.