[ExI] letter

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:22 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 1.6% of college football players make it to the pros.  So what?  So after
> perhaps making tens of millions of dollars for their schools winning
> conference titles, bowl games, the vast majority of the players graduate
> having gotten mostly nothing in return.
>
> It is time to pay the players.  Where else do we see employees contribute
> a great deal to the organization's bottom line and get a pittance in return?
>
> The idea that they are amateurs is ludicrous.  Even the Olympic
> organization got the right idea on that awhile back.  How much has Michael
> Phelps put in the bank?
>
> It is not a question of having the money. It's a question of sharing it.
> The players and coaches earned it.  The coaches certainly get their share
> and their schools too.  The real money makers get next to nothing -
> tuition, books, a very few spending dollars.
>
> This blatant hypocrisy needs to stop.  This is slave labor, isn't it?
> Where else can they market their skills?  Nowhere.
>
> Outside of actual slavery, I can't think of another situation that is this
> unfair.  Absolutely unAmerican.
>

The better players get athletic scholarships. That's substantial. Athletics
are voluntary: nobody is making anyone play football. Ask players why they
play. I think most just enjoy playing the game and the experience of being
a varsity athlete. I'd be in favor of removing obstacles to paying athletes
but I hardly think it's comparable to slavery.

-Dave
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