re: Kareem Abdul Jabbar weighs in on pay for college athletes

the sweat shop analogy is terrible because of hyperbole. if he just made a fairness argument and stuck to that much he would have been on solid footing.

The "sweat shops" in which college athletes play today are among the nicest facilities in the world. Should the athletes get some of the money from television revenue etc? Perhaps so, but if you argue for this you also have to make a comprehensive argument for how this affects Title IX (an argument the courts will respect). Ideally you should also discuss how the monies distributed will or won't likely affect the different levels of students playing either other sports or at less profitable schools.