Where does it all go???

As a college graduate from a Division 1 school, I helplessly watched as tuition increased every year as well as season tickets for football season. Now that I think about it not only were the tickets more every year but the gear was too ( jerseys, tanks, sweatshirts). I just assumed the price of everything must be going up, but the day I paid more money for a college jersey from a team that was not even in the BCS top 25 then I did for a NFL jersey is when I said "hol' up hol' up hol' up" ( in my best Kanye West voice).

I just watched miserably as Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor left Ohio State because of a few little trades; during my time in college I saw many of the football players and basketball players I knew live in roach infected apartments and barely have money to put gas in their cars, if they were lucky enough to have a car that is...so here is my question...where does all the money go?

Why are college football jerseys so expensive? Why are college football games so expensive?

The schools are making so much money of these student-athletes via game sales, merch sales, media sales and sponsorships yet the players barely have enough money to buy a pair of tennis shoes. I don't even play football, but I have a major problem with this. I hate to say this but its as close to modern day slavery as you can get. A lot of these players get hurt before they even have a chance to make any real money in the NFL. I'm not suggesting these athletes get paid like they are in the NFL but they should have some rights to these jersey sales and media coverage the schools are getting. Where is all this money going anyway? Into the pockets of some big wigs? I was in college and the money sure as heck doesn't come back into the school properly like it should.

Something needs to change...something needs to be done...question is when and who is going to do it?

-Brittani J