There is no shortage of people who want to play college football. Many would play even with out a scholarship. Division 2 and Division 3 teams less than half the team is on scholarship. They are almost never on TV and there is very little chance they will make the NFL.
That would be like a lower weight class boxer, say Canelo Álvarez taking on a fight with Tyson Fury (each in their respective class) for the "pay day", sure he may have a "puncher's chance" but few would consider it a fair fight.
the ones that are getting paid? There's exploitation going on, in a rotten system, and
Athletes aren't forced to play sports any more than people are forced to work at McDonald's or Walmart.
What's even the logic behind that? It's okay to mistreat people because they want to be an athlete over working at McDonald's?
What I want to see is higher education have their tax free status stripped and their endowments taxed as a total percentage (like property tax).
Both for creating the student loan mess and for having this ridiculous sports system that uses athletes as chattel.