How do college athletes afford food and other expenses when they leave the campus?

MoonWalker0 · 11-09-2009, 03:34 AM

okay, so i know these guys are basically the kings of the campus and have all of their whims taken care off, but what do they do when they're off campus?

say they go to KFC, how do they afford to pay if they aren't given money by the college?

MoonWalker0 · 11-09-2009, 07:08 AM

bump

tmc. · 11-09-2009, 07:24 AM

how does anyone afford anything?

**jkeithc82** · 11-09-2009, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by MoonWalker0

say they go to KFC, how do they afford to pay if they aren't given money by the college?

When athletes receive their Escalades there's usually stacks of cash in the glove compartment.

Jyeatbvg · 11-09-2009, 07:45 AM

When athletes get their houses, there's usually gold bars sitting in the kitchen.

JRRBadBoy4Life · 11-09-2009, 07:50 AM

Some of them may have a job on Sundays. A few have very wealthy parents. Many are on scholarships, allowing their parents to pay for other stuff besides school. I'm sure some of the females sell their bodies in some form or another.

cor030 · 11-09-2009, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jkeithc82

When athletes receive their Escalades there's usually stacks of cash in the glove compartment.

Wrong.

Athletes get Denali's, not Escalades!

thegenerel · 11-09-2009, 07:52 AM

they get a small stipend each month as part of their scholarship. i think i read its like $500

niospecv · 11-09-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by thegenerel

they get a small stipend each month as part of their scholarship. i think i read its like $500

Didn't know this.

thegenerel · 11-09-2009, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by M1k3y

Didn't know this.

i just read it on rivals somewhere. someone posted a letter to a recruit and in that letter they described what a full scholarship included

-full tuition
-free housing
-meal plan
-free books
-a stipend
-various performance incentives (like 50K for being conference player of the week)

(that might be it)

Azzurri · 11-09-2009, 08:29 AM

From personal experience (not a college athlete) but we use to have quite a bit of Ohio state Football players work for us back in the late 90's, they would like work a couple hours a day if that, and boosters would workout everything. Good players would get almost anything they wanted.

Some of the players were David Boston, Ny'all Diggs, and some others.

MoonWalker0 · 11-09-2009, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JRRBadBoy4Life

Some of them may have a job on Sundays. A few have very wealthy parents. Many are on scholarships, allowing their parents to pay for other stuff besides school. I'm sure some of the females sell their bodies in some form or another.

yah, i meant college athletes with scholarships.

dalynchmob · 11-09-2009, 08:55 AM

Athletes on full scholarship get roughly $850 a month for living off campus. In most places, that leaves close to $450-500 a month for things other than rent/utilities. They still have access to the training table to, so food shouldnt be an issue.

dogyo · 11-09-2009, 08:55 AM

They get checks from boosters, coach nutt would hook you up with anything anytime. Coach petrino gives one a month.

I know they have summer jobs at resturaunts (sp). Here a lot of us worked at bizy's. Like an upscale hamburger place lol.

dogyo · 11-09-2009, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by dalynchmob

Athletes on full scholarship get roughly $850 a month for living off campus. In most places, that leaves close to $450-500 a month for things other than rent/utilities. They still have access to the training table to, so food shouldnt be an issue.

this. And if players live together, they split the cost of housing...so they have more money.

And we would get a different place to cater to us everyday after practice. Catfish hole, charlies chicken, noodles, jasons deli, steak n shake, bizy's.

MoonWalker0 · 11-09-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dalynchmob

Athletes on full scholarship get roughly $850 a month for living off campus. In most places, that leaves close to $450-500 a month for things other than rent/utilities. They still have access to the training table to, so food shouldnt be an issue.

oh ok, this makes more sense.

southernstunna1 · 11-09-2009, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by dogyo

They get checks from boosters, coach nutt would hook you up with anything anytime. Coach petrino gives one a month.

I know they have summer jobs at resturaunts (sp). Here a lot of us worked at bizy's. Like an upscale hamburger place lol.

did you play for HDN?

thegenerel · 11-09-2009, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by dogyo

They get checks from boosters, coach nutt would hook you up with anything anytime. Coach petrino gives one a month.

I know they have summer jobs at resturaunts (sp). Here a lot of us worked at bizy's. Like an upscale hamburger place lol.

snitches get stiches

thegenerel · 11-09-2009, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by southernstunna1

did you play for HDN?

i guess you are unaware...

Azzurri · 11-09-2009, 10:24 AM

At big schools like USC, FLorida, OSU the star athletes get what ever they want, you think they play by the rules. Funny how Bennie Wells of Ohio State would drive around in a decked out Brand new Hummer H2, this was like his Soph year too, and his parents are not rich.

dogyo · 11-09-2009, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by southernstunna1

did you play for HDN?

nope, invited walkon that got here January of 08...he recruited me n some other people from highschool, but we all went some place else. He left a couple months before I got here. But I know him really well.

Calhexas · 11-09-2009, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by thegenerel

they get a small stipend each month as part of their scholarship. i think i read its like $500

this.

even athletes at smaller colleges and JC's get this.

considering most of their meals are taken care of at campus, as well as their housing, and books, $500 a month is incredibly easy to live on.

Calhexas · 11-09-2009, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by dogyo

this. And if players live together, they split the cost of housing...so they have more money.

And we would get a different place to cater to us everyday after practice. Catfish hole, charlies chicken, noodles, jasons deli, steak n shake, bizy's.

mmmmmm...Steak n Shake.

dogyo · 11-09-2009, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Azzurri

At big schools like USC, FLorida, OSU the star athletes get what ever they want, you think they play by the rules. Funny how Bennie Wells of Ohio State would drive around in a decked out Brand new Hummer H2, this was like his Soph year too, and his parents are not rich.

lol, our star player drives a tahoe. Like an 05.

NoodleLegs · 11-09-2009, 10:33 AM

A lot of us work around campus. I work at the Rec center and I literally just sit there and do my homework, make sure there's clean towels and then will walk around and rack weights on occasion.

Last year I worked at the Student disability center and I literally just sat at the front desk and instructed people how to sign in.

There's always money left over from off campus housing and there's a lot of spoiled rich kids from the small towns that we can bum off of.

joelz54_99 · 11-09-2009, 10:33 AM

Iam pretty sure athletes get stipends by the university.

dogyo · 11-09-2009, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Calhexas

mmmmmm...Steak n Shake.

bro, 2 double cheeseburgers and a chocolate shake. We could get 2 bags n 2 shakes. It was teH awesome.

Money Shot · 11-09-2009, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by jkeithc82

When athletes receive their Escalades there's usually stacks of cash in the glove compartment.

i lol'd

NoS_oUtLaSt · 11-09-2009, 11:00 AM

Derrick Rose, CDR, and a few other players from the Memphis NC Runner Up team use to "work for FedEx". Aka they would come in for 2 hours a week and get paid a good bit over the average weekly salary

dogyo · 11-09-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by NoS_oUtLaSt

Derrick Rose, CDR, and a few other players from the Memphis NC Runner Up team use to "work for FedEx". Aka they would come in for 2 hours a week and get paid a good bit over the average weekly salary

They'd also have people take their SAT for them. Lol.