US labor board dismisses Northwestern football players’ union bid

Reuters ^ | August 17, 2015 | Daniel Wiessner and Mica Rosenberg

[ConservativeStatement]

Northwestern University football players lost a bid to unionize on Monday when the U.S. National Labor Relations Board dismissed their case, in a setback for elite U.S. student athletes seeking a chunk of the riches generated by college sports.

The case had spurred a national debate over whether college athletes are truly amateurs when colleges and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) benefit handsomely from ticket sales, television contracts and licensing deals.

[Paladin2]

Too bad. That woulda been a whole lotta PC fun.

[knarf]

It would have been the end of Big BIG money.

[PJBankard]

They should have let them unionize. Then the colleges should have done the following:

1) Revoked all sports scholarships for union players
2) To play required yearly tuition payment in full prior to the start of the season.

[nascarnation]

They might have done that for the tennis and lacrosse teams, but I guarantee they wouldn’t have done it for the football players.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I want to know more about the NLRB regional officer who said that they players could unionize.

He should be fired on the spot for sheer stupidity and Marxist tendencies.

Next he will rule that high school athletes can unionize in order to prepare them for college.

Where do we get this assholes?

[jonascord]

Like their lawyers are just going to stroll away from The Big Lotto Ticket without an appeal?

Tell me that a bunch of football players thought this up one night in the dorm. The ones who have been getting no-show jobs, auto "B" classes, their own dorms, free 100% scholarship awards while getting recruited out of high school...

While the head coach makes more than the university president, like 7 figures, with his Sunday morning local TV show, when he isn't trying to explain away that boy scout troop...

Yeah, college ball, the purity of athletic competition.

[IrishBrigade]

Yeah, college ball, the purity of athletic competition.

and purity in athletic competition is exhibited where, exactly...?

[jonascord]

"and purity in athletic competition is exhibited where, exactly...?"

Girl's field hockey. Ever watched it? It's 'Statue' with sticks. As soon as there is a professional women's hockey, the same thing will happen to that.

That's why Pony League baseball is better than using colleges as farm teams.