Posted on 03/26/2014 12:33:35 PM PDT by AU72
In a stunning ruling that has the potential to revolutionize college athletics, a federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation's first college athlete's union.
The decision by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board means it agrees football players at the Big Ten school qualify as employees under federal law and therefore can legally unionize.
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Fine. Let’s just drop all college sports.
Wonder if this will affect how the draft works?
Very few college athletes are ever able to go pro and make money off of their athletic skills. The vast majority while they do earn scholarships lose those scholarships if they are injured and can no longer play.
these player’s do not even make money when jerseys with their name are sold or when their names and pictures are used on video games.
Both Tim Tebow and Johnny Football lost out on such income opportunity due to current NCAA rules.
How would you feel if people were selling a jersey with your name or producing a video game with you image and you were paid nothing?
And football will STILL pay the freight for the other sports. I doubt anybody will be making millions to play college football, but they will be able to make some pocket change, which is currently against the rules.
And the colleges have the right to cancel the football programs.
Stupid jocks.
The situation couldn’t be anymore corrupt than it already is. At this point NCAA trophies are loaners, teams are constantly under investigation, wins (including championships) are constantly being vacated, not to mention down stream suspensions that effect the next generation of player because the NCAA can’t seem to finish an investigation in under 4 years. Everybody is on the take, they’re just hoping not to get noticed. If the NCAA actually ALLOWED compensation for the players half this would go away. There’s no logical reason to not allow players to sell autographed memorabilia, or get stipends, let it happen above board instead of forcing it under the table.
Federal agency ? Yeah right
Well, they already do. I’ve been close to a couple of those situations. There is a parade of people going to the house.
No big time college football program is going to cancel football.
D1 football players receive money and a lot of other things within the rules. The things they actually are allowed to receive and do is never made public. Just the continual tear jerk stories. A few years ago a VT senior on the football team wrote a good article about it. They get a lot more than I ever thought. Since that article they get more.
I hope you have not mistaken me for one of those “beer bellies.” I could give a rats ass less about college sports as a spectator. If it is on, and it is a team that I like, I might or might not watch it. Typically, I am too busy doing shit to sit and watch sports in the middle of the day on a Saturday, or Sunday for that matter.
Where you and I disagree, is that I believe college athletics are good in higher education. They make for great sports trainers, they teach teamwork, they teach hard work, they instill healthy living, so to me, they have a place.
I don’t think that they need to be the beginning and end of the entire damn campus (as many are), but they have some good qualities as well.
Hell, two of my daughters are going to junior colleges which do not have ANY sports and one is going to start at Abilene Christian University next fall - sports is an after thought at that school.
Bye bye NCAA, you deserve what you get.
No they don’t receive money, NCAA doesn’t even allow athletic scholarship to include stipends. Anything they’re receiving is under the table or otherwise carefully constructed.
I am with you 100% on that! Well said.
Do they get overtime pay for weekend games? How about games on national holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years?
I have a solution for these geniuses.
Tax tuition, lodging, food, books, etc., etc., at all levels, Local, State and Federal.
If it’s union, it needs to follow all the rules. Handicapped must be given equal opportunities to play; women cannot be excluded from men’s leagues; and no matter how badly you play, you cannot be fired.
First, 80% of the football players at D1 schools do not meet accademic standards for the schools. They are there by design to play football, not earn a degree.
Second, since they are not academically qualified, they are taking up spaces in the school that could but used by real students.
No, they’re predominantly white.
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