Two or three college athletes will benefit from this, while every other athlete will slave away in obscurity.
Try selling a t-shirt with the image of a right guard from the university of nowhere.
Slaves aren’t paid.
Scholarship athletes trade their skills to pay for an education. At least that’s the theory, the reality I know is something different. Shouldn’t we then we “pay” over and above tuition, books, room and board those on academic scholarships also? These people are trading their skills for an education just like athletes are theoretically doing. Why should we treat them different? Is it because watching an academic scholarship performing is boring TV?