They’re also “assuming” that fans will consider continuing to pay inflated ticket prices to football and other sports. I definitely WILL NOT pay $40-50 for a baseball ticket that goes for $10 today. Maybe the NCAA should allow a stipend and call it a day before opening Pandora’s box too far.
they already get a stipend...its called a scholarship, and on top of that, room and board, transportation and all that glorification...
I think the tax situation will arise very quickly and scare the crap out of most of the football players. If you toss in the free yearly tuition (figure minimum of $30k)....as a union guy....you need to pay for some taxation on it (to include state taxes). Once this gets explained....nobody will sign up and the whole dies as a topic of conversation within minutes.
Under NCAA rules, students/players cannot get paid for their participation in sports. Otherwise, they are tagged as “professionals” and barred from playing in college sports, unless someone slipped a new rule by me.
Years ago, some college players earned money during the summers by playing in semi-professional “Industrial Football Leagues”, but were banned from rejoining their college teams because they were now marked as pros.
The NLRB is corrupt as hell and Obama is keeping it that way to please the corrupt leftist unions who are his sugar-daddies and goon squads.
Here is a chance for the Republicans in the House to hold extremely penetrating hearings on the NCAA, the NLRB, and the anti-sports organizations. Might as well kill three nasty birds at one time.