Universities as students had to PAY their own tuition, many by taking our student loans with high interest rates. All college students have it hard, and I would say the non-athletes have it much harder than the athletes. Yes the athletes are busy and get hurt, but their education and everything associated with it, including housing and food, is taken care of for the scholarship athletes. The athletes that actually struggle are on the non-revenue earning teams and if you cut them off to pay the football team as employees you now cut off the experience of competing for those other athletes. It isn’t simple no matter how you look at it, despite your wailing and accusations of slavery.