Schooled: The Price of College Sports

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02/16/2017 It's nothing you don't already know. College athletes are modern day indentured servants. See more 11/25/2014 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. See more 11/20/2014 Where money is made, greed follows. Young aspiring athletes sign contracts to "work" for colleges with no compensation and receive degrees but no education. See more 02/09/2014 Interesting break down of collegiate athletics, mainly looks at basketball and football See more 01/27/2014 A really great documentary! #paycollegeathletes See more 01/25/2014 Very important doc. Well-researched and eye-opening. College sports is modern day slavery. See more Read all reviews

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

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