Jabrill Peppers Sounds off on NCAA
I lived there for two years, and ate at every other central campus dining hall during that period--East Quad was no different from the others. People took the reputation and ran with it. Really, it was the same damn food they had everywhere else, and it wasn't bad. Hell, I had a meal plan the year after I moved out of the dorms, in the period when they'd let you buy a meal plan for lunch only. Loaded up at West Quad lunch every day for a year, and did just fine.
I got to eat at the Central Hill Dining Center (or whatever it's called) when I was a non-degree student after I graduated, which was the first dorm cafeteria they overhauled, and it was unbelievable. They've now done taken a similar approach at the other dorms as well, including East Quad. It's crazy the amount of options and the food quality they have now.
That being said, both then and now--if you can't find a way to survive on dorm food, or think you're too good to eat in the dorm cafeteria, that's on you, not the university. Peppers had an alternative to Oodles of Noodles. There's nothing horribly wrong with a dorm room and a meal plan when you're getting it for free.
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I don't think that's what's happening here at all. We recognize this is a teenager spouting off on social media. At the same time, we're looking at the math here and wondering why a kid who (apparently) voluntary chose not to live in the dorms with a meal plan can't manage to make ends meet on an amount of money that should be more than adequate to support his needs in a college town.
Granted, we all go through growing pains when we live on our own for the first time, learning how to stretch dollars at the grocery store and plan ahead with our food choices... But I look at this and just shake my head, because while he has a point, why should he be eating Oodles of Noodles when he apparently has $1700 to work with any given month? How many Michigan students see that amount of cash hitting their account at the beginning of every month?
This is a complete non-story. He's a kid blowing off steam because he's hungry and short on cash. Happens to the best of us. I'm pretty sure we all would've tweeted far worse during our more intemperate moments had Twitter existed while we were of college age.
Also, if Jabril is ripping the NCAA a new one, ol' dude ain't wrong.
When you had a dorm meal plan, you never went hungry. Hell, dorm food wasn't all that great when I went to Michigan, but it was plentiful, unlimited, and decent enough to never turn it down. I gained some weight my freshman year just due ot the unlimited nature of the food that was available.
I'm surprised they can't stay on the food plan even if they live off campus. It's food we're talking about here, a basic need, and athletes probably need and eat more of it than the average student. I think the athletes, all of them, not just the football players, should have a cafeteria in the athletic complex that provides a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner. Why not? It seems like a no-brainer to me.
Anyone know the exact $ figure allotted for cost of living for student-athletes? I would be curious to compare it to other scholarship students across the university (and university c/o/l estimates). Every department has quite a bit of leeway as to how they allocate their resources, but most are rarely burdened by the oversight of the NCAA overlords.
Also, I would be curious to know what happens if (for example) a 5th year football player was legit accepted into the PhD program in History. The standard stipend in that department is ~$30,000/year. Would the student-athlete be forced to take a lower stipend then their colleagues? Any ideas how the NCAA would reconcile this absurd mulishness?
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It's a non story, but if you think the Press won't run with this and paint Peppers in a negative light you haven't been paying attention.
Just a yuoung kid blowing off some steam, but I really wish he hadn't invoked slavery and indentured servitude. Kid is getting to go to school for free and getting a decetn stipend to live on, when I went to college there were months I lived exclusively on Ramen Noodles.
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These players act like the spoiled kid who cries because daddy bought the wrong colored IPhone.
They're treated like royalty and given opportunites that regular students would kill for, but it's not enough! I want more; I'm being taken advantage of!
How long does it take after the players start getting paid for this to start all over again?
Man I feel sooooo bad for these student athletes........
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He had so much free crap (clothes, shoes, clubs, bags) he could barely fit it all in his dorm room. He also had free meal plan every single day.
If money was going to be a problem then why didn't he stay in the dorm?
I made plenty of decisions that I didn't want to make, but that I had to make, in college because of money.
It's saw not seen. Read a book.