Ugh...I saw that too.
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I think he's great that he's calling a spade a spade.
Yes, very important to shine a light on how malnourished college athletes are. Every time I see one of these guys on TV, I marvel at the muscle atrophy caused by the lack of protein in their diet.
Agreed.
He's not wrong.
Maybe he should employ some personal financial responsibility. Chooses to live off-campus, posts pictures of new clothes, chains, MacBook Pros, surround sound, etc. I didn't have that in college. I had loans. You would be complaining if the NCAA made athletes live on campus or monitored their spending, there is no wining strategy.
Oh, but you say, Jabrill brings in $ to Michigan and the NCAA! He deserves it. Ok, what about the longsnapper? What about a CB at Eastern Michigan? What about a male swimmer at Michigan? What about a female rower? If some athletes are going to get paid, they are all going to have to.
Lets not forget, the Michigan football is subsidizing pretty much every other sport/athlete on campus. Oh, but you say, Michigan turns a profit and can afford to pay them! What about the MAC schools where the average student is PAYING additional tuition to fund the sports teams? Should they pay more so that the athletes can get more than a free education, free housing, free meals, and additional money for books and expenses?
The issue has to be seen as a bigger picture, not simply through the lense of the 20 most profitable football programs at the 20 profitable athletic departments.
Brutal. Wife played soccer at Michigan in 90s and was never starving. Got plenty of cash and had extra to buy CDs, etc.
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She may have been on some pretty good teams depending on what years. They won the Big Ten Tournament in 1997 and made it to the NCAA Tournament in their 4th year as a sport at Michigan.
She was there for second year of the varsity program (transferred in). Graduated in 97...didn't make NCAA tourney.
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Cool, but what does that have to do with the price of Oodles of Noodles in Ann Arbor?
Well, prices have gone certainly gone up since then. Have the student-athlete benefits? Honest question.
If he gets 1700, her check was less than half that amount.
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So I guess that means that no athlete should ever be hungry?
Because what fed your wife would surely feed a 210 lbs man. I'm sure your wife and Pep both come from the same background and have the same family financial situations as well.
Glad all things are equal so we can justify comments like this. Shame on Jabrill.
Edit: NM. didn't see the part about living off campus. Still, if he's really getting 1700 a month, he should be all set for food.
Not only that, but a lot of these guys are eating upwards of 5000 kcal/day. That is much more the your typical 3 square meals and snack...
What does her family financial situation have to do with it? I'm commenting about the check she was getting for her scholarship and that she was able to live on it. I get that he probably eats more than she did.
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Its going to be interpreted as him going off on Michigan. Im pretty sure other teams will gladly use that tweet to negatively recruit against Michigan given the new rule allowing "unlimited meals".
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dorms. I'm assuming the unlimited meals mean you have to be in the dorms. There are no Publix in the area with free crab legs. I guess this is an indication that Michigan follows the rules.
Perhaps the most relevant passage in the oh-so-vast NCAA Handbook:
15.2.2.1 Off-Campus Room and Board Stipend.
If a student-athlete lives and eats in noninstitutional facilities, the institution may provide the student-athlete an amount equal to the institution’s official on-campus room allowance as listed in its catalog, the average of the room costs of all of its students living on campus or the cost of room as calculated based on its policies and procedures for calculating the cost of attendance for all students. The institution also may provide the student-athlete an amount that is equivalent to an on-campus 7-day or 21-meal board plan or the cost of meals as calculated based on its policies and procedures for calculating the cost of attendance for all students, excluding those meals provided as part of the training table. Meals provided on the training table shall be deducted at the regular cost figure from such a student-athlete’s board allowance.
Yawn. Is this supposed to be controversial?
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He'll be doing some running at dawn for quite a bit this summer.
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Why?
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Even though I agree with his sentiment, it's not the best way to deliver the message.
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Yeah, but it would be pretty hypocritical of Harbaugh to punish Peppers for making contorversial statements on Twitter.
True that
You mean the shitty Twitter grammar?
Do you mean it's the 2nd or 3rd best way to send the message or it's a bad way to deliver the message?
Should he hand deliver a note to each human?
I think what you mean is he should deliver the message in a diary or a prayer or some way that wouldn't actually deliver a public message, right? Or what do you really mean?
That's not good for him on an empty stomach.
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"I just seen" I don't understand how this ever gets written.
I was going to say I agree with you, and then I seen that you had >1.5m points and there has to be a story there so I'd rather ask about that.
I'm not really sure but I've been trying not to call attention to it as my prodigious number of mgopoints turns on 1991 UM GRAD and thus has been very good for my sex life.
Maybe because not everyone is a 1989 UM Grad?
Maybe I'm not really a 1989 UM Grad. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, Pinky.
I graduated in 2008 and still dont have a clue what smh stands for. And no i will not google it. Fuck google,
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you don't need Google when you have internet friends!
EvenyouBrutus. Pray tell.
I seen't that too.
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You seen it two. Me to as well. Irregardless of weather you seen it.
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Seen it two.
nothing.
an now weave all seent it .
The prima starts. Football get here alreasy
How long before Snyder comes skulking around campus looking to write some story about how players are probably getting free, unlimited meals?
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Some people will just never get why the Freep thing happened. Unreal.
I'll bite. Why did it happen?
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Because Michael Rosenberg was executing a witch hunt on Rich Rodriguez. Tons of people still think it was about Freep vs. UM as some kind of institutional war.
True that it was a Rosenberg witch hunt but many others at the Freep were complicit so why give them a pass?
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No pass given. Just pointing out how moronic it is that paranoia about the Freep is still out there with the major player from each institution being long gone.
hit job was facilitated by people inside the UM AD. Out here we will never know how many of those are still left. The war against RR also sabotaged the players, the fans, and the football program at UM. As late as last August Hoke and Brandon were still rolling out the red carpet for Rosenberg when he skulked out of his swamp at SI for privileged interviews at UM.
The F-word paper never acknowledged its own editorial malpractice in allowing that factually dishonest piece to see the light of day. That paper still acts like it never did anything wrong and like that piece isn't the journalistic paraquat that it is.
Half of the deplorable duo, Snyder, whose names appeared on the criminal libel still purveys his journalistic malfeasance under the same roof he did on the day of infamy. Several others anethema to human decency still work there too.
In short, there has been no distance made between that paper now and its earlier manifestation which, holding the knife, plunged it into the back of the players and fans of the Michigan football program.
No forgiveness. Never forget.