The student should be able to make any decision they want to, just like the regular student population. I didn't prepare for many of my exams at Rutgers and I wasn't even being paid as an alternative ;). The question is why do you care what decisions this person makes?
This is a really bad take. These non-revenue sports are subsized year over year over year yet the revenue sports get all the bad publicity. I really don't like the entitled non-revenue sport athlete arguments.
Yet they don't think it's dumb to subsidize rowing, fencing, golf, field hockey, softball, soccer, swimming, wrestling, etc. etc.? Prime example of what I mentioned above - always taking out the tax payer argument on the revenue sports.