From talking to a few parents of student athletes in football, women’s basketball and men’s basketball at OSU and several other P4 schools, the programs provide financial literacy classes and seminars. They don’t throw the kids to the wolves with thousands in their pockets. Fans are only seeing the players buying cars, clothes and see the number attachéd to the names. There are so many players who have bought new uniforms for their HS when levy’s don’t pass in their home towns, bought their parents homes(and for some of those parents it’s the first house they’ve ever lived in), paid for private schools for their younger siblings, bought vehicles for former teachers, started athletic camps, bought equipment for their HS or peewee program, and even started non profits in their old neighborhoods. Many are selling these kids short because they see some posts on IG or Twitter
