Jeremy Bloom investigates the NCAA, the billion-dollar industry facing a seismic rules shift allowing athletes to make e | dG1fX0phblRDdnc2LVU
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00:00Football and basketball players are the only students recruited to the university for the
00:07sole purpose of making them money.
00:09What the NCAA truly is, is a cartel.
00:13There's an awful lot of people getting filthy rich off of college sports right now.
00:17I don't know how you can't draw that through line from like slavery to Jim Crow to the
00:22NCAA.
00:23The untold story of a $14 billion industry built on the backs of its young, mainly black
00:29players.
00:30I'm not in favor of paying student-athletes.
00:31There's a lot of money made and they don't see any of it.
00:35We're more than just athletes.
00:37We have an identity.
00:38And the reckoning at hand.
00:40A shift is going to have to happen within the culture.
00:43Why are you denying them the ability to monetize their talents?
00:46Without student-athletes, the NCAA doesn't exist.
00:50Without student-athletes, none of this exists.
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