Snoop Dogg's son, Cornell Broadus, plays for UCLA's football team. Like all college athletes, Broadus puts in grueling hours of training every week, contributes to making billions of dollars for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and makes no money himself.
Snoop isn't happy about that.
"I think it’s a scam," Snoop told Business Insider recently. "I don’t like that rule. I think they should be paid."
Most of the arguments in favor of paying college athletes are based on economic fairness: If people make money for an organization, the organization should pay them in turn.
Snoop agrees, but points out that not paying college athletes harms them in other ways. He believes it fails to teach players important lessons about money.
"As soon as he leaves college, you try to teach him the [football] business, but you never taught him the business while he was in college," Snoop said. "So when he gets a handful of money, he blows it and does something stupid with it."
