The Knight Commission is always an interesting study in the opinions surrounding college athletics, particularly the somewhat shifting narrative on amateurism.

And while this year’s commission featured a number of interesting speakers — among them former star David Robinson, ESPN analyst Jay Bilas and St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli — much of the interesting commentary came from Kylia Carter, mother of Duke star Wendell Carter Jr.

The No. 7 overall player in the 247Sports Composite, Wendell Carter chose Duke for the 2017-18 season over in-state Georgia and Ivy League schools like Harvard, excelled — he averaged 13.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game — and left early for the NBA Draft, where he’s expected to be a lottery pick. And that journey didn’t make his mother any sort of fan of the collegiate system.

“To be honest with you, it’s nauseating,” Carter said, according to USA TODAY’s Steve Berkowitz.

Carter had stronger words as she continued on.

“It’s the only system I have ever seen where the laborers are not being compensated for the work they do while those in charge receive mighty compensation,” Carter said. “The only two systems I’ve known that to be in place is slavery and the prison system.”

Carter said the college model allowed for the purchasing of talent, with unshared profits built on the back of that talent.

“[College sports] looks like an attempt to legalize purchasing people,” Carter said. “When you pull back everything, it’s legalized purchasing the talent of an athlete and not compensating them for it financially.

“The talent is being purchased,” Carter said. “But the talent is not receiving any benefit.”

And that’s something that Robinson said the Rice Commission — Robinson was also a member of the commission spearheaded by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — discussed, despite not making any recommendations on how to pay players.

“Certainly kids should be able to benefit from their name, image and likeness,” said Robinson, who starred at Navy before beginning a Hall of Fame career with the San Antonio Spurs.

But Robinson said the commission declined to make recommendations because of the pending legal cases over the matter.

However the pay model is eventually decided, it should be better than the current one, which fails to reward upper-echelon athletes who aren’t likely to stick around for their college degree.

“[Athletes] are provided an education they did not ask for and then they tell him it will be beneficial,” Carter said, “when all you wanted him for anyway was his talent.”