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Colleges and universities in the US make billions of dollars each year from sports, compromising the health and education of athletes — who are disproportionately Black — in the name of money, power and pride. Sports lawyer and former NCAA investigator Tim Nevius exposes how the system exploits young talent and identifies fundamental reforms needed to protect players.
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Nandini Kumari
April 19, 2021 at 5:18 pm
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gogators432
April 19, 2021 at 5:21 pm
Nonsense calling this a racial issue. It affects each individual student athlete the same way.
Other than that, good talk
Star Dust
April 19, 2021 at 5:44 pm
Its designed to exploit.
gogators432
April 19, 2021 at 5:55 pm
@galion1991 the racial groups affected are irrelevant to the issue. It is a structural issue that the NCAA is predatory to student athletes. Race has ZERO to do with this
Abbas Timmy
April 19, 2021 at 6:17 pm
@gogators432 He said that only so that he could present at TED.
NekomataJinchuuriki
April 19, 2021 at 6:37 pm
Are you by chance, white?
gogators432
April 19, 2021 at 7:05 pm
@NekomataJinchuuriki it’s rather offensive to ask about my race as if that has some sort of factor on one’s ability to think.
An intelligent person doesn’t need to know the race of the person speaking an idea since that has no impact on the words being spoken or the ideas in question
Cesar Rod
April 19, 2021 at 5:25 pm
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LegateLanius_8043
April 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm
This deserves way more likes
Cesar Rod
April 19, 2021 at 10:32 pm
@LegateLanius_8043 thanks :’)
Carson Fenne
April 20, 2021 at 1:07 am
How is this guy at all like Jordan Peterson?
evildog2121
April 19, 2021 at 5:26 pm
Next TED talk: “Exploitation of US College Students”
Mehdi Baghbadran
April 19, 2021 at 5:27 pm
The sports generally, are designed, for young generations, to be able to control their energies, and then one of the goals for their future life’s and business, if this ways of young activities, challenge, not only the professional sports individual’s, but millions of the fans, loosing their hopes.
Steven French
April 19, 2021 at 5:32 pm
Why is this not trending
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April 19, 2021 at 6:25 pm
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Rosita Davis Bryan
April 19, 2021 at 6:26 pm
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bandalchagi
April 19, 2021 at 6:13 pm
isn’t this a repost?
ziguirayou
April 19, 2021 at 6:48 pm
Universities shouldn’t force people to play sports… Oh, they don’t. My bad.
rufus pope
April 19, 2021 at 6:57 pm
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Cameron Stark
April 19, 2021 at 7:18 pm
Sometimes sports is the only way for someone to make it. Try again…
ziguirayou
April 19, 2021 at 7:23 pm
@Cameron Stark Sure, but what if you’re not an athlete? Should colleges still do social work for your benefit?
John Herrington
April 19, 2021 at 6:51 pm
Or instead of maintaining and perpetuating this inherently corrupt system, force the NFL and NBA to develop a farm league system like the MLB has done to give players a paid pathway to the professional leagues outside of our institutions of higher learning.
James Calbert
April 19, 2021 at 8:59 pm
Reasonable. Wasn’t aware that they didn’t.
E K
April 19, 2021 at 7:01 pm
Thought it was JP for a sec
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April 19, 2021 at 7:15 pm
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LGS Hazırlanma
April 19, 2021 at 7:20 pm
It is very good video
jason
April 19, 2021 at 8:13 pm
Reminds me of that South Park episode…
Rex Mann
April 19, 2021 at 9:21 pm
Let’s get one thing straight. These guys, by and large, had NOTHING going for them before getting a chance to play ball for a college. Those profits are *supposed* to be funneled back into the schools for research. Many people if they had the talent would risk it for a chance to make millions in the pros.
Doug Mattis
April 19, 2021 at 9:25 pm
Excellent presentation. Right on.
64standardtrickyness
April 19, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Let’s be real the value of the degree especially from a prestigious institution has exceeded the value of the actual education.
KelechIwuaba
April 20, 2021 at 6:08 pm
Nah. If it ain’t a degree from the top IV schools. It isn’t worth the same
John Wilkinson
April 19, 2021 at 9:59 pm
“the world” = USA
Ricardo
April 19, 2021 at 10:05 pm
Working for free thats communism…
Ricardo
April 19, 2021 at 10:09 pm
Cogs in the machine always get screwed
Scott Jones
April 19, 2021 at 10:35 pm
Sadly these institutions no longer care about educating our youth. It’s not just athletes suffering. Young kids put themselves into $80k worth of debt just to find out that hard-earned piece of paper is borderline worthless.
Colleges are money printing machines for those who run them…I would argue that in the long run the cost will be much more than money.
Pandaboi
April 19, 2021 at 11:15 pm
We need higher education, but not like this, or like anything these colleges have done. And as usual when somethings not going right we should look at whatever Norway is doing.
Jason Fabo
April 19, 2021 at 11:44 pm
But but they get a “degree” in ballroom dancing or swahili or whatever
Errant Cognition
April 20, 2021 at 12:05 am
Ah, he’s caught on to the fact that making something about race will get your voice heard lol. Good otherwise. Honestly, the exploitation starts in high school
Mohyeet Tginc
April 20, 2021 at 4:33 am
But it certainly has a lot to do with race. He isn’t shoving it where unnecessary.
Legend-Kel'Thuzad
April 20, 2021 at 1:19 am
It’s textbook immoral. Please share this video with others to. The colleges gotta treat their athletes better.
Kyler Tesch
April 20, 2021 at 1:34 am
I thought this was Jeremy Strong
Baby Snap
April 20, 2021 at 2:10 am
💯
T BONE
April 20, 2021 at 2:11 am
Its not right. College athletes that are on TV should get paid and don’t say “they get free education” another kid in the classroom or a free 250k education does not equal what they could be making if they could sell shirts etc. and wrestlers for example are done after college but they are televised on ESPN etc. flowwrestling for example. Millions off the backs of the kids.
T BONE
April 20, 2021 at 2:16 am
Unless you want to be a DR, Lawyer or Professional Engineer, don’t bother with it.
bret favre
April 20, 2021 at 2:37 am
Way to bring race into a legit issue that affects everyone…
Zach Waynetska
April 20, 2021 at 3:49 am
Damn. Perfectly said
0 0
April 20, 2021 at 6:07 am
True, doesn’t have to be a lot but that is a full time job. Make it an even pay for all so there is an equality in college sports.
D T
April 20, 2021 at 6:49 am
oh boohoo, they get to go to Stanford or UCLA for free. mUsT stOp ThIS ABusE
j k
April 20, 2021 at 6:49 am
oh boohoo, they get to go to Stanford or UCLA for free. mUsT stOp ThIS ABusE
aLaa aLi
April 20, 2021 at 12:58 pm
The game is inherently flawed. If you want to invent your own game and have market regulate it. Good luck to you.
Gretchen Sauer
April 20, 2021 at 7:04 pm
This whole thing sounds like a bad joke, a system designed to benefit no one and make sure to ruins peoples lives for the sake of it
drditup
April 21, 2021 at 6:19 am
This talk should have been 10 minutes longer!
Daniel Alexander
April 21, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Good luck. Start paying football and basketball players and most of the other sports will be cut.
David Edwards
April 22, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Imagine if a huge number of black college athletes dropped out and started organizing and coaching THEMSELVES and started collecting the billions. That would be true justice. Enough with white people profiting off of black and brown labor. Enough with the upper classes profiting off of working class labor.