How about 15 and 16 year olds. Don’t they have rights too? Should we pay high school jocks too?
15 and 16 year olds are not adults. Need I tell you?
They can work at McDonalds, so why shouldn’t they work at their sport. High school isn’t quite the money factory college sports is (except football in Texas maybe, have you look at some of those stadiums). But college sports is a multibillion dollar industry, and the idea that the people at the most risk of life altering injuries in that industry shouldn’t get paid because... well frankly stupid reasons is evil.