Schooled: The Price of College Sports

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

85 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 16, 2013

Schooled: The Price of College Sports is a comprehensive look at the business, history and culture of big-time college football and basketball in America. It is an adaptation of “The Cartel” by Pulitzer Prize Winning civil rights scholar Taylor Branch, and his October 2011 article in The Atlantic, “The Shame of College Sports.” Schooled presents a hard-hitting examination of the NCAA’s treatment of its athletes and amateurism in collegiate athletics; weaving interviews, archival and verité footage to tell a story of how college sports became a billion dollar industry built on the backs of athletes who are deprived of numerous rights.

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

85 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 16, 2013

Schooled: The Price of College Sports
Schooled: The Price of College Sports is a comprehensive look at the business, history and culture of big-time college football and basketball in America. It is an adaptation of “The Cartel” by Pulitzer Prize Winning civil rights scholar Taylor Branch, and his October 2011 article in The Atlantic, “The Shame of College Sports.” Schooled presents a hard-hitting examination of the NCAA’s treatment of its athletes and amateurism in collegiate athletics; weaving interviews, archival and verité footage to tell a story of how college sports became a billion dollar industry built on the backs of athletes who are deprived of numerous rights.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers
Original title Schooled: The Price of College Sports
Directors Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin, Jonathan Paley
Writers

Cast

Sam Rockwell

as Narrator (voice)

Jay Bilas

as Himself

Bob Costas

as Himself

Frank Deford

as Himself