College sports mix college with sports. They are students playing in a multi billion dollar industry getting paid some cash and a scholarship. That is hard to quantify. What if a kid isn’t interested or capable of college work? What happens to him.
Maybe it’s time to get sports out of the universities. Let someone, maybe the NFL, create a farm system And these players can form a union and get what they can get. It will almost certainly be less than what they are getting now for most players.