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"They're all crooks." It's time to do something about the NCAA

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It's been an awfully long time since I wrote anything on here, so I thought I'd rectify that with my latest article. It felt particularly right to upload it now, after the NFL Draft and after Dabo Swinney signed a 10-year, $93 million contract extension - the largest total contract in college football history. It is an article I wrote to go with a column page I designed and made myself. It's shown on page in the picture, but here is the text so you can easily read it yourself! STUDENT athletes in America have an opportunity to play organised sport in an environment better than many professional players do in other leagues and sports worldwide. College football boasts eight stadiums with capacities over 100,000, and until the Los Angeles Rams relocated from St Louis to LA, college football had 16 stadiums larger than the biggest NFL stadium. Every year, USA Today release the revenue and expenses for top college football programs. In the 2016-17 financial year, ...