Posted on 01/30/2014 3:34:47 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Football players at Northwestern University are seeking to join a labor union, according to the National College Players Association, which wants to be the first union to represent college athletes.
Ramogi Huma, president of the National College Players Association (NCPA), told CNN Tuesday that he has filed a petition with the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
With the backing of the United Steelworkers union, Huma says he has gotten signatures of support from an undisclosed number of Northwestern football players.
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“Just eliminate the program. “
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2013/12/18/college-footballs-most-valuable-teams-2013-texas-longhorns-cant-be-stopped/
The college teams bring in hundreds of millions. The unpaid players most of whom will never make the pros, and who face the possibility of permanent injury, want their cut.
Beginning of the end for NCAA. You can figure a major class-action suit within three years, and the Supreme Court will rule against the NCAA. At that point, the whole mess will fall apart, and college-level amateur status will disappear entirely. Ticket prices will creep up to sixty bucks a game, and Texas Tech will be able to offer a million-dollar a year contract to some kid out of Arkansas to help them out. For the lesser schools....football will disappear within ten years. The NFL will shake their head over how this changed the whole scope of drafting and looking for future players.
Just pay them openly and be honest about it. College football is hopelessly corrupt.
Their ‘cut’ is a scholarship worth five figures annually.
I’m not opposed to a stipend but a realist knows that will be abused as the current system is being abused via under-the-table payments.
But these are the same lefties who simply hide their greed behind high-minded talk of workers’ rights and collective bargaining. They are ostensibly students who look at the Rust Belt and decide that unions are a good thing.
No doubt the union will require dues to ‘conduct normal business activities.’ The corruption will begin on Day One.
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If you start paying college athletes, what effect does that have on high school kids who believe they may be making a million a year after they graduate?
What effect does that have on their parents, on their high school coaches (”Don’t bench my kid! I don’t care what he did! He’s got a chance at a million-dollar contract from XXX university! You can’t ruin his chances!), and so on?
Will kids start to be groomed for the high school team in grammar school? Will high school coaches be sued if they don’t put the kid on the team, or bench him?
If the administration at Northwestern had a lick of sense, they would immediately end most of the interscholastic sports, and go entirely to Title IX implementation.
Title IX is an example of how even a briefly-worded insertion into the statutes of the US Code can work great mischief, as originally, it was not about sports at all.
All these “hundreds of millions” that college sports programs bring into the coffers of the university administration, only make the colleges targets for huge monetary lawsuits. It is in the nature of cheese to attract rodents.
The unpaid players.....
LIE—they are getting an expensive education under athletic scholarships. That is payment.
IF they think they are being exploited, then they can go back to paying for their college educations & they can also get the grades by themselves without the constant tutoring the athletes get.
Cry me a river.
Another group of Give me Give me Give me......
For almost every other university, sports is a money-losing proposition. Only big-time college football has a chance of generating enough net revenue to cover not only its own costs but those of “Olympic” sports like field hockey, gymnastics, and swimming. Not even men’s basketball at places like Duke University or the University of Kansas can generate enough revenue to make programs profitable.
As a result, most colleges and universities rely on what the NCAA calls “allocated revenue.” This includes direct and indirect support from general funds, student fees, and government appropriations. In other words, most colleges subsidize their athletics programs, sometimes to startling degrees.
Source: Myth: College Sports Are a Cash Cow, Spring 2012 issue of The Presidency, by the American Council on Education
Once these players find out that college sports is not the cash-cow that they think it is, and realize what a good deal they have had, they will, hopefully, give up their quest.
But, I think the question that needs to be asked is: Where did they get the idea that they are entitled to anything???
Ironically, Northwestern has higher academic standards. Which, in this case, has no relationship with wisdom.
Not football players, but radical malcontents seeking a union leadership job without coming up through the ranks
Ironically, Northwestern has higher academic standards.
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Yes BUT they still think the “N”
on their helmet
stands for knowledge.
Maybe the university will then fire their players and hire some winners from the SEC.
Let them start paying taxes on tuition, food, books, medical care and room and board then as well. As a tax payer I want my cut of what they are being gifted.
Let them start paying taxes on tuition, food, books, medical care and room and board then as well. As a tax payer I want my cut of what they are being gifted.
Fine let the Kellogg biz/legal school students negotiate on behalf of the university preferably the ones speciallizing in accounting
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