NCAA

x10003q wrote

There is no such thing as a 4 year scholarship. The scholarship needs to be renewed each year. You can be dropped for many reasons including injury. The tuition cost to the University can actually placed at almost zero - adding a few more students into classes that are already scheduled costs nothing. The university owns athletes for 20 hours a week and that does not include "voluntary" practices, training/rehab/taping,  and no travel or only part of the travel. This is a part time job that sits on top of your academics.

Where do the basketball 1 and done athletes fit in? They are clearly not there to get an academic education as they are planning to leave after 1 season. They should be paid for their year of work.

Athletes are also not allowed to make money from anything having to do with their sport. A D2 pitcher I know was offered a job to give pitching lessons part time at a baseball training facility. It would have paid him $25 an hour for 20 hours a week. Because of NCAA rules, he was not allowed to take the job. He needs money to help pay for school so he had to take a much lower paying job flipping burgers for longer hours that cut into his summer training. These rules do not exist for any other non-athletic or academic scholarships like music, computer programming, art, and in fact you are encouraged to get positions in your scholarship field. Coaching sports seems to be a legitimate way to earn a lucrative living, yet those who are might be inclined to choose coaching as a vocation are not allowed to work in the field.

D.B. Cooper wrote

 that 1 and done is ridiculous and that maybe athletes should be able to work in their discipline at fair market wages (i.e. not $200/hour).