If they were talking about the NBA it’d be laughable.
As they’re talking about college, it’s still laughable but much closer to truth.
The colleges/universities make MILLIONS off those kids and the kids can lose scholarships, get kicked off teams if they so much as receive a free meal from the wrong person. It’s FAR from slavery so the article comparison is a joke but the kids in that system get the super-duper short end of the stick.
Cry me a river. First, basketball and football, pay for the costs of many other intercollegiate sports activities at most schools. Second, the annual costs of tuition, room and board, and other fees are huge, forcing most students to borrow money to attend school and working. Athletes on scholarship are a privileged few. Check out the annual costs for most of these big time schools and you will be blown away by the costs. It is no wonder that student debt now eclipses $1 trillion.
The typical annual cost for an out of state student at UCLA is $62,858.