<blockquote>As the civil rights historian Taylor Branch put it in his <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/">landmark analysis of the NCAA</a>, “the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves.” Those players are treated as worse than mere commodities — because at least commodities are given a financial value. They are treated as indentured servants, who do not get their fair share of the revenues and who can be discarded if they dare get hurt doing a job for the very school that refuses to guarantee them a full college education.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/03/31/will_ware_be_stuck_with_the_bill/">Will Ware be stuck with the bill? - Salon.com</a>.