College Football is Back and Players Still Aren’t Getting Paid

GGL co-director Victoria Jackson spoke with NPR’s Andrew Limbong about the hypocrisies in big-time college football, where coaches can make 8 figures, the industry is approximately $20 billion annually, but schools still refuse to pay athletes directly for their athletic performance. Only in the United States are athletes held to an amateur ethos in professionalized, commercialized sports industry.