The moment your boss tells you that you’re not more important than the organization for which you work, it’s time to leave. Hopefully you realized it long before such words were spoken about you. Your employer is not more important than your health, your family, your happiness. And if they aren’t willing to work with you for a promotion, pay raise or more time off, bye-bye.
Of course, all this hinges on your privilege. The system make sure that you can’t do that and college football players have long been pawns in such a system. Over the last few years, they’ve won concessions from the grudging organizations that had long benefited from their mostly free labor while lots of common folks have disparaged them.