You said your scholarship money was enough for you back when you were in school, did family members send you money or did you have a job while being a student-athlete?
Have you ever completed an internship or required volunteer hours for graduation? You get rewarded with the hours, however you devoted a lot of time to help the business flourish and put in the work just as a paid employee. A lot of times people who completed an internship felt they should be paid.
Imagine your coaches heading out to nice fancy restaurants and driving nice cars and you go to bed hungry because you are tired of eating the cafeteria food, or you can't go home for Thanksgiving break because not only you have a game that Saturday, but you don't have the