Seahawks' Bennett rips Curry, other athletes charging money for youth camps

Micheal Bennett is happy to spend time helping youth, but he isn't pleased about how some other athletes go about lending their services.

The Seattle Seahawks defensive end is hosting his fourth-annual free youth football camp in his offseason community of Oahu, Hawaii, this weekend.

The key word there for him is free.

Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry came through Bennett's state over Fourth of July weekend to host a similar camp at the campus of BYU-Hawaii, but charged overnight campers $2,250 to attend.

"I see a lot of different athletes come through Hawaii whether it’s Steph Curry or whoever it is," Bennett told Sam Spangler of Khon2. "They all come here and it makes me mad, because I live in this community and I understand this community - that there's so many kids who can't afford to pay such a high amount of money. In my mind it's like, how much money do you need before you start giving back for free? And I think a lot of athletes should start focusing on that."

Bennett worries that the youth of Hawaii don't get fair treatment from athletes who view their home as a vacation destination. He believes athletes should take it upon themselves to help benefit the communities they visit instead of looking to profit.

"If you do have a camp and you charge money for it, you need to make sure that money that you take from this community, you give back to the kids that are paying for the camp. These are the kids that live here," said Bennett. "When you leave Hawaii and you go back to wherever you're at, or you come here and you go back from this vacation you leave with a piece of paradise, but these people still live here every day."