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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2592517, member: 285"]
I am so sick of this argument.

(1) The players are compensated, they receive the opportunity to get a free education.

(2) Noone forces any athlete to go to college.   If you want to be compensated differently than an education you have the option of doing that, it just isn't viewed as ultimately rewarding as the college path.

(3) the participants themselves are telling us that the value is at least greater than $26,000 salary available in the G League.

(4) The one and done phenomenon has pretty much proven out that the money made on college athletics is not about the athletes, its about the laundry and the competition.   If all teams in college were playing high school caliber basketball, but at the same relative levels as they are now (ie.  Duke, UK etc. were still a cut above;  Rutgers was still trash) people would still watch and would still come to games.

I'm not convinced that college athletics is all that different than operating a huge call center.   Companies can make lots of money doing it and pay minimum wage to those employees because they just need bodies to to answer the phones.    Those bodies are easily replaceable.

(5)  College athletes are not by and large being mistreated.
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