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College baseball should be ashamed of ‘dehumanizing’ way it treats unpaid assistants, debt-ridden players | Commentary

The biggest travesty in college athletics has nothing to do with the ridiculous notion that football and basketball players should be paid lucrative salaries to compete in their sports.

By far, the most monumental injustice in all of big-time intercollegiate athletics is happening in college baseball, where hundreds of “volunteer” assistant coaches are working full-time and not getting paid a salary or medical benefits and thousands of players are leaving school in massive debt because they only get partial scholarships or no scholarship at all.

“For whatever reason, college baseball has always been the whipping child of the NCAA,” new FSU baseball coach Mike Martin Jr.