A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.
I was drawn in by the trailer, and it did deliver. It wont be everyone's forte, but the acting was impeccable and kept me clued to the screen to finish it. Reminded me of life and how people only think of themselves and can easily expose dirty laundry to get their way. There is no action, if you are looking for that, but a lot of realness!
The argument that athletes are paid with their education is not valid. The reason being that athletes are normally not academics, they are athletes. When you spend your time on a sports field refining your talent, it is at the sacrifice of studying for academics. The athletes suffers because he must spend all his time practicing on the sports field, not in the library. He needs to be compensated for his sacrifice to bring money to the school. Very few top athletes get degrees of any worth, like lawyers, or doctors, or rocket scientists.
Students pay is their education at a university. The student repays the university by playing to the best of their ability. If a player wants to be paid he should try to get hired by a professional team.
This subject is so topical, and no one can go deeper in the argument then "players deserve money." Why? Is a college education not proper compensation? If not, why? Is it the degree, or is it the lack of jobs that your major qualifies you for? That's an education problem, not a pay problem. What about the students why play sports with no audience, no tickets to buy, no merch sales? Do they get paid also? Where does that money come from? Do you tax this income, are they subcontractors or employees? The pay model will crush 90% of schools that arent the 'Alabamas, or Ohio States,' Does the 10% subsidize the 90%? This is a disaster, that would redefine the purpose of University, it will never be fair to all the same, and it will cause pain.
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I am really not happy with this film that refuses to play and keep finishing my data