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context: Athletes get a free education and the opportunity to earn money through endorsement deals. Only football and men's basketball are profitabile. There may be a handful of women's basketball teams that make money. It's about profit, not revenue. 
  Thousands of college football players graduate each year and they compete for maybe a couple hundred NFL jobs. Some sports don't have professional leagues. >
  
  The Olympics also, the organizers rake in billions while the athletes get next to nothing. >
  
  I hate how liberally you people throw around the word scam. I agree that college athletes should be paid, but that doesn’t make the system a ‘scam’. >
  
  They're probably referring to the USA >
  
  At my D1 school, almost none of the athletic funding comes from student tuition. It comes from ticket and merch sales, and donations >
  
  Most athletic programs are paid by ticket sales and also the skill and competitive difference there is between college and pro level is insane >
  
  Who’s going into debt here? 
  Also, student athletes should get paid, but they gotta pay tuition now. >
  
  Most sports programs don't make money.