A Fair Wage for Elite College Athletes? How About $750,000?
Posted Mar 23, 2018
Complaints that big-time college football and basketball are professional sports that don’t pay their players go back decades. Unfortunately, the economics of these games have changed. By my calculations, the average football or men’s basketball player at a major conference college now generates between $1.5 and $2.3 million in revenue for his college per year.
(Chronicle.com)
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