Jon Stewart Hilariously Ripped The NCAA Apart On Last Night’s Daily Show
With the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coming to a close, and Most Outstanding Player Shabazz Napier making post-championship comments about the fact that he is apparently starving to death, the issue of NCAA student-athletes not receiving what most rational people would consider appropriate compensation given the profits they generate has come up yet again. Between Napier’s assertion that he can’t even afford a Totino’s Party Pizza and the Northwestern University football team’s recent unionization, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show thought it was time to weigh in. General politics aside, because I know how you all hate that rare celebrity with liberal viewpoints, Stewart pretty hilariously rips apart the NCAA’s base hypocrisy, and it’s well worth the watch.
Someone get Shabazz some ramen.
Mark Emmert. TFTC?
11 years ago at 11:27 amA problem so obvious, even the liberals realize it.
11 years ago at 11:43 amI feel terrible for these men. I will recommend they feed themselves through college the way I did: Go out and kill themselves a good moose. Good hearty meat, and they make excellent ribs.
11 years ago at 11:58 amHonest question, do these scholarships not cover meal plans / dining dollars?
11 years ago at 12:48 pmIt does. Most of what they are looking for is just luxury spending (shoes, hats, etc.). I’d say for a simple solution is have their scholarship not cover the meal plan and give them the option to get the meal plan or the money that they would’ve spent on the meal plan.
11 years ago at 1:16 pmAn even simpler solution would be royalties, a scholarship guarantee if they’re injured and can’t play anymore, and and health insurance to cover medical costs from those injuries
11 years ago at 5:59 pmThe scholarship includes a meal plan if they want it. Most athletes get a weekly money stipend for food. Back when AJ Hawk played for Ohio State, his apartment got broken into and he had hundreds of dollars of cash in his room. When asked where he got it from, he said it was money from his weekly food stipend that he didn’t spend. So don’t tell me you are hungry. College athletes have so many benefits its unreal. They do not need to be paid
11 years ago at 10:16 pmRight. I’m sure he told the truth about the stacks of cash he had in his room. Cause that’s how scholarships work….they just hand you cash and say “Go spend this on food”.
11 years ago at 7:16 pmIt actually is how it works. They know that the athletes don’t use it on food. Thats how they can afford all the shoes, headphones, ralph lauren clothing for their kids, etc.
11 years ago at 1:08 pmAs a former college athlete at a large division 1 school who was on partial scholarship, we received per diem(cash in hand) only for when we traveled to compete and practiced on school/public holidays. We had a few members who were not responsible with this money of course but I believed we should have been given a weekly stipend of about $100 or a little more to keep up with the 2000+ calorie diet we needed to compete.
11 years ago at 9:13 pmThese guys eat 5-7 meals per day. Their meal plans only cover 2-3 of those meals. Most of these guys don’t have two nickels to rub together. That’s why they’re hungry.
11 years ago at 4:01 pm