Schooled: The Price of College Sports

2013

Action / Documentary / History / Sport

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 636 636

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Plot summary

Schooled: The Price of College Sports is a comprehensive look at the business, history and culture of big-time college football and basketball in America. It is an adaptation of “The Cartel” by Pulitzer Prize Winning civil rights scholar Taylor Branch, and his October 2011 article in The Atlantic, “The Shame of College Sports.” Schooled presents a hard-hitting examination of the NCAA’s treatment of its athletes and amateurism in collegiate athletics; weaving interviews, archival and verité footage to tell a story of how college sports became a billion dollar industry built on the backs of athletes who are deprived of numerous rights.

Director

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Ross Finkel

Top cast

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Sam Rockwell as Narrator
Arian Foster Photo
Arian Foster as Self
Bob Costas Photo
Bob Costas as Self
Jay Bilas Photo
Jay Bilas as Self
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Where money is made, greed follows. Young aspiring

Where money is made, greed follows. Young aspiring athletes sign contracts to "work" for colleges with no compensation and receive degrees but no education.
Reviewed by R T 9 / 10

This is a well-researched, fully formed case for

This is a well-researched, fully formed case for a change in the structure of the NCAA system that is currently in place. "Student athletes" (christened by Walter Byers) are college students who play on university teams without compensation. There's always been a classic narrative that these students are getting a free education and should be kept from being maligned with corporate sponsorship and big business. Meanwhile collegiate football alone is making billions off of the free labor of student athletes, who often can't afford to eat, who take out loans for college though they barely attend, and therefore don't do as well as other students, making said education a gambit that won't help later in life. Their likeness can be stripped away and sold without their consent, and they make no money from it. If there wasn't such a dissonance between what was actually happening to these students and the traditional narrative, I would agree that education matters as much as salary, but the film presents that that's not the real issue. This system is not only flawed, but at times corrupt, and morally ambiguous with how they treat students. What these students can actually get from this system is slim, and in the process they are physically hurt, monetarily in the red, and always dog tired. It's a complex issue that's handled well, presented knowledgeably, and breaks down our assumptions of what we know about college sports.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

It's nothing you don't already know. College athletes

It's nothing you don't already know. College athletes are modern day indentured servants.
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