It's also doing the athletes a terrible disservice. At first glance one would think that them getting paid his a good thing. They'll have at chance to make some good money sooner, but the reality is that the vast majority of these players won't make that much money, especially if they're not playing for a big name team in a big name conference with lots of big time donors and marketing deals, in my opinion. Then they'll transfer a couple times during their playing career, while they try to chase the money and in the end will graduate having spent most of their time focused on chasing the dollar in the short term, while squandering their chance for long term success in something other than basketball, which many of them won't be playing for very long after college, if at all. Let's just say, hypothetically, maybe they go for a certain major because they think it's going to be easy and they'll just make their money through the sport they're playing. Then they don't end up making all that much and they've gotten very little educational value out of their school(s). A very minute percentage will see the NBA. The rest will either play in Europe for a short time or will have to find a good paying job. In the end, most of them will need to make a living at some point doing something other than basketball. But with what kind of education exactly?
These kids are going to get manipulated more than ever, in my opinion. We're breeding a bunch of dollar chasing narcissists that will struggle to function at doing the most mundane of tasks in the world. Have you seen these kids? Their glued to their phones/videos, ridden with anxiety, struggling to make correct change, & trying to be the next influencer. These days parents actually call up professors at colleges to complain if their kid isn't doing well. WHAT??!! That used to be unheard of. They're suppose to be grown ass functioning adults. Instead they're becoming social media whores, trying to make an extra buck off that next Tin Tok video. I mean they're/we're fucked with a capital "F" here.
Who's going to build our bridges? Build houses? Cure cancer? Become a nurse, teacher, or doctor (all in short supply right now)? Air traffic controller (3000 people short last I heard)? Have you seen the young guns in the U.S. Congress and how dysfunctional they are? A bunch of knuckle dragging dipshits that whine, complain, & can't get shit done.
Brawndo. It's what plants crave.
