You folks are missing something. All 18 year-olds have the same right to cash in on their talents as you and I.
What’s missing here is the fact that public universities are using taxpayer money to pay off the athletes. Even the privates get money from government loans to the students. What’s needed is more Hillsdale’s.
They’ve always cashed in, it is called a “scholarship”.
How about 15 and 16 year olds. Don’t they have rights too? Should we pay high school jocks too?