Do you not understand that most schools don't have profitable athletic programs? And the one's that do are not earning billions in profit, more like low millions.
This is why players should get an education and graduate, so they have something to fall back on when their football careers are over. Average football player lasts 3 years in the NFL.
Notre Dame and the other blue bloods like them are doing about 100 to 200 million per season in sales and a business with the margins like those in college football are worth billions of dollars (10x annual revenue).
A lot of these blue bloods will take the money from football and reinvest it back into football to grow the product or they'll take the money from football and they'll distribute it to the other sports in their athletic department to be competitive in those other sports even if those other sports aren't making money and then they'll claim that the athletic department isnt profitable despite the football program being extremely profitable in and of itself (this is the oldest PR trick in the book) but I digress
Football careers are extremely short you risk permanent damage to your brain and you risk the kind of injury that could end your career at any moment. These star players producing big numbers for their colleges should be making millions of dollars during their prime earning years which is as early as freshmans in college. There is little chance to make it to the NFL and when you get there your window for earning is about 3 years on average
Notre Dame talks about taking care of these recruits when they walk into the recruits house and talk to their parents
But how are you looking after these kids who have one opportunity to cash in on their extremely marketable and valuable skills when you are actively trying to regress the economic power that these recruits have in college football by trying to suppress their ability to earn fair market value for the labor they produce?
I don't understand how Notre Dame doesn't see the hypocrisy
