Oh please.
There's an obvious difference between some guy who works an assembly line doing work a trained monkey or robot could do and a guy whose individual market value is in the tens of millions.
And it is the NCAA, because it's the NCAA's rules that create these conditions in the first place. What did Mark Emmert make last year? $11 million? He's just an innocent bystander in all this? The schools ARE the NCAA.
And hard work is irrelevant. The point is that his work was worth more. A lot more than he was paid for it. That's not true for your working-class hero nonsense.
And you completely missed his point that players are not allowed to take advantage of the offerings of the university because of their 60-hour-a-week work schedules. The point of that isn't to show "how hard they work," the point is to establish that that "free education" indignant white critics are always yapping about isn't as great as it sounds when you consider how limited their experience actually is.
And I know that for a fact, because that's one of the reasons I stopped playing. The University of Miami only had a couple of Middle East and Arabic classes at that time, and they were all during football. When I decided that stuff was more important to my future than playing football, I had to quit. But I was on academic money. A football scholarship doesn't have that option, he just has to major in something else.
So yeah. They're spot on. The difference between Student Wooly "working hard" and not getting paid as much as he thinks he should and Richard Sherman doing it is that Richard Sherman's work is literally worth tens of millions of dollars and Student Wooly's isn't.
They're not playing by the same rules.
Student Wooly is free to sign endorsement deals, to appear in commercials, to get paid to wear Nikes to class. His $0 in endorsement money is only the byproduct of the fact that there's no market worth to his endorsement.
Richard Sherman's $0 in endorsement money is only the byproduct of the NCAA ruling he's not allowed to have it, because we can't have these poor black kids flashing all this money around. It makes the suits uncomfortable. His endorsement is worth millions, he's just barred from giving it.