The coaches you are complaining about making so much money are almost all former college players . The NFL is full of millionaires who are all former college players , and there is really no other way to qualify for that opportunity . They choose to play the sport , often with hopes of working in the field for a living , they also get a free degree . They may be approached as teenagers , but almost every teenager in college made life changing decisions about where to go to school and what to study while minors . The term ' student athlete ' was made up because that ' s literally what they are . The average salary for people with a Bachelor ' s degree in business is significantly higher than the average salary . The average person with any bachelors degree makes significantly more over their lifespan than someone without it , and as I said most college athletes score significantly lower on the SATs than their peers , as well as coming out of college with zero debt . I generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit for my bosses , and I don ' t make that much more than full tuition to Notre Dame per year . Could the owners afford to pay me more ? Maybe . But they don ' t have to , because they are providing the structure in which I derive those benefits from . This isn ' t a fairy tale . If you want college football to stop making money then go talk to the fans who pay for it . I don ' t really give a shit about sports , I played it in high school , I was given a choice to play it in college , I made a decision as an adult to go in a different direction . A free tuition , free tutors , a free degree , and a much higher chance than the general population of moving on to a job that gives wealth and fame isn ' t slavery . It ' s a stupid argument . Maybe I think the best solution would be to disband college sports entirely , that way educational underperformers wouldn ' t be taking up space in classes they on average didn ' t qualify for . How about that ?