In 28 states, the highest paid public employee according to public records is the head coach

of a college football team.

Take dabbo Swini of Clemson University, he made almost 9.5 million dollars last year.

Coaches like Swini make serious money because college football is a seriously lucrative

industry.

A USA Today analysis found that schools in the top conferences were set to make more than

four billion dollars from the 2020 football season.

Two percent of college football players make it to the NFL and get those NFL size paychecks.

But that's not the case for the other 98 percent.

Players only get a tiny slice of the billions the schools bring in from their games in the

form of scholarships and certain small perks.

They're banned from accepting almost anything else.

Tray John Butler is a senior cornerback at Stanford University.

And this year, as the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice movement laid bare in

the qualities all across the country, Tray John decided to take action.

He came together with a group of football players from all across the pack 12.

That's the NCAA conference that includes schools like the University of Oregon, Arizona

state and UCLA and formed a coalition called We Are United.

We are United and our commitment to secure fear of treatment for college athletes due

to COVID-19 and other serious concerns.

We will opt out of Patel, Fall camp and game participation unless the following demands

are guaranteed and writing by our conference to protect and benefit both scholarship athletes

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