The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so he could play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." ... An example of the amount of money college's hand to their athletes is football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so he could play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." ... An example of the amount of money college's hand to their athletes is football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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The most profitable sports in the NCAA are College football bowl series (FBS) and Division I college basketball. ... The typical NCAA division I football player spends 43.3 in season hours at practice, games, treating injuries and attending required team meetings. ... The previous time spent by college football players, mentioned earlier doesn't even include time spent in class or doing classwork. ... The 'primetime' college football games are played on Thursday nights because they are able to be national televised and bring in a lot of revenue for the NCAA and the schools inv...

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One example was of a football player named Devon Ramsey. ... This was a poor judgment made by the NCAA because when you look at the fine print, Devon was one of the only players on the UNC-CH football team who had broken an NCAA rule. ...

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Not only did it affect this specific chapter but it also affected the school's football team. In response to the video, the Oklahoma Sooners football team held arm in arm protest vigils instead of attending practice. ...

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For example, a male college football player is almost always doing something football related, with nearly all seven days a week dedicated to practice, film, running, or lifting weights - not to mention their academic responsibilities. ...

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In a big name sport that draws the majority of the attention such as football, the schools are making money of the athletes in ways such as ticket sales to fan gear but the players are not the ones who get to see any of the money. ...

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What separates college and professional athletes? The obvious answer is that professional athletes get paid for the sport they play but college students do not. In my eyes, this is strange; both groups are doing the exact same thing but college students are getting a degree while playing a sport. Co...

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We see college sporting events on television and hear about college games on the radio; we even read about them in the newspaper. Whether it's a scrimmage or the last game in the Final Four college basketball series, you should be aware that those athletes aren't receiving a single dime from the col...

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This solution is being brought up in Nebraska, because the governor is suggesting a bill that, "calls for all football players -- the 85 on scholarship, as well as the 100 or so walk-ons -- to be paid the federal minimum wage ($5.15 an hour) for approximately 728 hours per year, which works out to an average of 14 hours per player. ...

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