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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Just about everything is more lucrative than being a college athlete. College athletes basically benefit by getting free tuition but they don’t really make any real money.
gpt
There are definitely male college athletes getting perks under the table. All of the baseball players at my school drove the same white BMW... basically temporary gifts from alumni boosters.

For male athletes in the biggest sports, they hope playing in college is like an internship for the very lucrative pro leagues. For female athletes, nothing like that really exists. So they are only really playing for scholarship or love of the game.