Read TIME magazine’s latest cover story, “It’s Time to Pay College Athletes,” and you might recognize one of the quoted experts.
[T]he players with the talent remain out of the money simply because a group of college presidents, athletic directors and conference commissioners set their wages at zero. “Universities are quick to lecture society,” says Charles Clotfelter, an economics and public-policy professor at Duke University and the author of the probing 2011 book Big-Time Sports in American Universities. “But here is a situation where we’re not living up to our best selves.”
Regular readers in this forum will recall that Clotfelter discussed his findings on “big-time college sports” during a 2012 presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
