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The one factor that few people consider is that if you want to play professional basketball or football, you are virtually required to get your "minor league" experience playing college football.
If a young high school athlete wanted to be honest and say, "I have no interest in school, I just want to prepare myself to tbe a professional basketball or football player," he would not be able to do it, no matter how hard he tried.
So in essence, the colleges have monopoly power on these young athletes. It is their way or nothing at all.
As I have written here previously, the bad guys here are the NFL and NBA owners, who exploit the NCAA to provide a free minor league system for them. If they had any integrity they would do what MLB does and sponsor a number of minor league programs so that the schools do hot have to be compromised with non-student athletes, and so that young athletes could be PAID for their efforts.
The NCAA is just as guilty since they take money from these professional organization to keep these "student athletes" unpaid.
It's been commonplace since the 1980s to move towards a cartel system when it comes to labor costs keeping employee wages down while employee productive is at an all time high. They don't like unions because they fight for higher wages for their increased productivity. When it's an individual employee asks for a raise, it's easier to tell them no or let them go for even asking. Now we have algorithms in job applications that kick applications out of the system if they put in a wage that the business feels is too high even if the wage is a fair market rate. So we have a limbo effect on wages like "how low can you go."
This NCAA unionizing situation is the same thing. The rich aristocrats are trying to keep players doing more and more work yet their compensation (ie. scholarship) and other benefits stay the same or decrease. That's not the way it's suppose to work.
The ideal of America is that if you work hard, you get rewarded. American worker productivity is at an all time high yet wages have been stagnant for over 30 years. Company profits are at an all time high yet workers get the crumbs. It's not sustainable.