Oh, so it's minutiae after you got the quote wrong?
Well, since you asked, using slavery to define cholarship athletes is certainly hyperbole. You know, exaggeration for effect. So while it's certainly not slavery, consider the scholarship athlete. He can't even do his laundry without wondering whether he'll get suspended for not using official NCAA approved detergent. More hyperbole, but you get the point. Really, unless a kid already has reasonable means (as in, his parents have enough money to send him some now and then), he's effectively a prisoner of the NCAA guidelines. A lot of scholarship athletes don't much apart from their scholarship. I know what it's like to have nothing in your pocket but your meal ticket while several of your friends even have cars and can put gas in them, etc. It was complete BS when a couple SU basketball players were cited for getting a minimum wage job handing out towels at the local YMCA, while the NCAA and the schools make hundreds of millions of dollars. So I think something does need to be done for scholarship athletes in college today. For "fair" is not the same as "equal" and the NCAA apparently doesn't understand that. Nor do they want to.
Websters 1828 Dictionary: Slavery
SLA'VERY, noun [See Slave.]
1. Bondage; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. slavery is the obligation to labor for the benefit of the master, without the contract of consent of the servant. slavery may proceed from crimes, from captivity or from debt. slavery is also voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when a person sells or yields his own person to the absolute command of another; involuntary, when he is placed under the absolute power of another without his own consent. slavery no longer exists in Great Britain, not in the northern states of America.
2. The offices of a slave; drudgery.
