Spectrum Local News: The Unsung Heroes of TCU Football

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The Unsung Heroes of TCU Football
By Robbie Fuelling Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, Texas – If you break down every successful college football program, you’ll notice great coaches, great players, and an essential team of workers behind the scenes. An even deeper look reveals the hard work and dedication of the equipment managers. During the football season, they put in more hours than the actual players do.

At about 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, the TCU football team, like most Americans, was sitting at the dinner table with a hot plate of turkey, gravy, and mashed potatoes. But the equipment managers had some unfinished business to attend to: pack up the team for Lawrence, Kansas.

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes an army to travel a Division I football program. The managers loaded thousands of pounds of equipment into a semi-truck to be driven 512 miles north.

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Are the students who are trainers/equipment staff on scholarships? Do they get paid? Strictly volunteer?

 

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Are the students who are trainers/equipment staff on scholarships? Do they get paid? Strictly volunteer?

The ones at Okie Lite were on some level of scholarship or work study stipend. Wasn’t a whole lot of $ but was something and for several it fit as an internship as well. Can’t speak for TCU.

 

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Partial scholarship

Are the students who are trainers/equipment staff on scholarships? Do they get paid? Strictly volunteer?

 

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Partial scholarship

nowhere near enough money to justify the time commitment or what they could be making with an on campus job doing homework or internship getting $15/hr or more