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March madness has come and gone.
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But yo, how are college athletes like really doing?
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It's from March Madness to March sadness,
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ladies and gentlemen, crazy,
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bro. And I know you're,
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you're a college athlete,
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right? D one back in the day.
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you know this, this story definitely is right up your alley
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for sure. There's highs and there's lows.
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You know, I think what was it?
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NC A made over 1.3 billion last year and only 7% of
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the revenue is going to the players.
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Does that make sense to you?
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Oh, no. Where's the rest of the money going?
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We know where it's going?
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It's going to these rich white owners.
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Meanwhile, the players have all of the pressure of the game
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with none of the benefits.
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You imagine being a college athlete ad one like you were keeping
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up with school and being good in sports.
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No, bro. Go with that.
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Them, them boys should have been getting paid and grove I
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know been getting paid 100%.
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I know that there was like a,
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a lawsuit or there was something that recently passed.
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It was like the name image and likeness deal where that would
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be able to let players make money off of their name,
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their image and their likeness.
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But that's roughly having them get around like 1500 bro.
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That's, you can't out of the 1.3 billion.
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That's what my season is worth.
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$1500. Dumb as hell.
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You saw how much madness was and how big that stadium is
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how big? And that's just basketball.
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You think football, baseball,
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no one cares about wrestling.
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So we don't care about wrestling.
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Let's put that away.
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obviously profits have been skyrocketing for the NCAA,
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but the number of college athletes committing suicide has doubled since 2002
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to 2022. So it's like,
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literally, like you think it's directly correlated to the,
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to them not making money or I don't know if it's co
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like, I, I just think that there is a certain
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amount of pressure that is applied to a student athlete and if
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they're not getting the benefits of,
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then I mean, what are we doing here?
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So I guess the study has increased due to pressure of
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school, internal and external performance expectations,
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time demands, injuries.
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That's what happened with me because like a lot of players,
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they would get injured and then you would slip into a depression
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And so if you're just in school and now you're missing
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out on the whole experience of being there.
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I think that's, that's like a major component of why these
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maybe gone down the path of suicide.
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You definitely should have been paid,
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what, 44 seasons I did two seasons.
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don't matter, don't matter.
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I know I need my stimulus.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Hopefully you got a check in the mail soon.
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No, never gonna happen.
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