Reply #6: A person I know who is on the inside of college athletics told me how many of the

[bertman]

'student athletes' are getting Pell grants that they use as supplemental income and that they never pay back.

I was taken aback when told about this but my friend just laughed and said, "That's how the system works. They basically get subsidized to play college sports by the taxpayers with no expectation of actually getting an education OR of paying the money back."

It's LONG PAST time for college athletics to be treated like a real feeder system for professional athletics. The system needs to be completely revamped, but there's a HUGE amount of $$$ being made by lots of people. Don't expect change anytime soon.