Arian Foster Says He Took Money At TennesseeS

Texans running back Arian Foster admits (maybe "admits" isn't the right word, because public opinion is swinging away from shaming the athletes, toward shaming the system that facilitates and encourages it) that he took money while he was a student at UT.

Foster sat down for an upcoming documentary, Schooled: The Price of College Sports, and revealed that he "was getting money on the side" during his senior season in Knoxville.

Via SI:




For the inevitable "how can an a college football player be hungry, don't they feed them?" argument that's going to pop up, note well: the NCAA limits athletes to one formal meal per day, to the dismay of dietitians. Yes, they have a standard student meal plan, but sometimes the dining hall is a long walk after a hard day's work, and an estimated 86 percent of scholarship athletes living off campus fall below the federal poverty line.

And sometimes the dining hall simply isn't open late at night—say, after a nationally televised, primetime game that brings in millions of viewers and millions of dollars in TV money.