re: Coaches pay is getting ridiculous, while players make nothing

They get free tuition, but it is renewable each year. You people keep implying it’s a free education. A degree is NOT assured, even if you get good grades and do everything right. Then you have an entire industry that has been created to keep non-college IQ level ‘students’ eligible. Then they leave there after 4 or 5 years with bullshite. That shows you the “value”of these players to the University.
Getting health care for debilitating injuries after you are done is also not a given. Think of the disability claims schools would be on the line for if they actually took ownership of them.