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      Schooled: The Price of College Sports

      2013 List
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      Audience Member It's nothing you don't already know. College athletes are modern day indentured servants. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a well-researched, fully formed case for a change in the structure of the NCAA system that is currently in place. "Student athletes" (christened by Walter Byers) are college students who play on university teams without compensation. There's always been a classic narrative that these students are getting a free education and should be kept from being maligned with corporate sponsorship and big business. Meanwhile collegiate football alone is making billions off of the free labor of student athletes, who often can't afford to eat, who take out loans for college though they barely attend, and therefore don't do as well as other students, making said education a gambit that won't help later in life. Their likeness can be stripped away and sold without their consent, and they make no money from it. If there wasn't such a dissonance between what was actually happening to these students and the traditional narrative, I would agree that education matters as much as salary, but the film presents that that's not the real issue. This system is not only flawed, but at times corrupt, and morally ambiguous with how they treat students. What these students can actually get from this system is slim, and in the process they are physically hurt, monetarily in the red, and always dog tired. It's a complex issue that's handled well, presented knowledgeably, and breaks down our assumptions of what we know about college sports. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Where money is made, greed follows. Young aspiring athletes sign contracts to "work" for colleges with no compensation and receive degrees but no education. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting break down of collegiate athletics, mainly looks at basketball and football Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A really great documentary! #paycollegeathletes Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Very important doc. Well-researched and eye-opening. College sports is modern day slavery. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Hinckley New York Daily News Sobering and true. Rated: 4/5 Oct 17, 2013 Full Review Brian Lowry Variety Taken together, the two docs create an image that persuasively links big money and exploitation, not that such revelations will deter the sport's devotees in either instance. Oct 7, 2013 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Produced by ML King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch who makes the case that college athletes are like indentured servants. Nov 24, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Jonathan Paley