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You can believe that student-athletes should not be paid… by FL_Irish

…or that they should not be paid above some minimal amount without pretending that what they’re doing is equivalent to a part-time job.

I would direct you to nohow’s post below. Start with the fact that coaches are allowed to demand 20 hours per week of activity. And that they therefore demand every second of that 20. Then take a gander at the list of activities (including, but very much not limited to travel) that don’t count towards that 20. Having done so, you will realize that the hours involved are routinely well in excess of 40 hours a week in season. And that the hours off-season, while less, are very much not nothing. Indeed, it is during the off-season when I think being a student-athlete could accurately be described as a part-time job. But since it’s a job and a half in season, the total number of hours expanded in a year is well in excess of what any reasonable person would describe as part-time.