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“I’m old-fashioned,” Rice said. “I think that the value proposition is that you get a scholarship, the best training possible, the best coaching possible, great nutrition and a chance to display your talents. Then, if you’re good enough, you become an employee of a professional league. That’s the world that I’m most comfortable with.”Rice added, “There are places that have not benefited the student athlete in the right way, where the degree wasn’t front and center. But if you can be in a place where you can get a scholarship where another student is working 20 hours a week and taking out loans to do the same thing, that’s a pretty good value proposition.”
“I don’t love the transfer portal,” Rice said. “I worry about the stories that I hear of student athletes who’ve gone to three universities in three years. What kind of academic experience is that?”
“I’m old-fashioned,” Rice said. “I think that the value proposition is that you get a scholarship, the best training possible, the best coaching possible, great nutrition and a chance to display your talents. Then, if you’re good enough, you become an employee of a professional league. That’s the world that I’m most comfortable with.”Rice added, “There are places that have not benefited the student athlete in the right way, where the degree wasn’t front and center. But if you can be in a place where you can get a scholarship where another student is working 20 hours a week and taking out loans to do the same thing, that’s a pretty good value proposition.”
“I don’t love the transfer portal,” Rice said. “I worry about the stories that I hear of student athletes who’ve gone to three universities in three years. What kind of academic experience is that?”
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