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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Northwestern has a national student body. The ex-player who led this unionization thing is from Denver,CO.
But real students don’t bring in millions of dollars of revenue. The athletes aren’t taking up space, they’re funding parts of the school.
...and don’t forget discrimination charges for lack of playing time
How many football programs bring big money to their schools?
The last answer I saw to that question is around 50.
The remainder lose money.
Pretty much everybody in div 1:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/29/news/companies/college_football_dollars/
Especially the ones in the major conferences.
Academic qualifications for college consists of SAT scores, ACT scores, GPA and class rank, not how long it takes to graduate or the type of job obtained after graduation.
Can you name one big time college football coach that was fired due to low graduation rates?
So, so long as they succeeded in high school, you could give a rat’s ass if they actually succeed in college. Good to know that you care so little for those who are spending money, they don’t have, on their hopes and dreams.
I kind of think that we should be putting those who will actually succeed in a college environment into college, not kicking out athletes because you think they are stupid and shouldn’t be in college.
Can you name one entry-level, burger flipper with a college degree that can actually make their college loan payment on their wages?
That data is three years old.
Texas, Michigan, Ohio State make money, but smaller schools do not make money.
And the big time schools in the major conferences make money as the networks pay to broadcast a Michigan, ND or Texas game but do not pay big money to broadcast an Iowa State game.
However, Texas shares money earned with schools like Iowa State.
The data is scattered, but all of it says that most div1 football programs, especially those in the big conferences, turn a profit. It also shows college athletics as a whole tend to turn a profit (remember they also have basketball, which not only has massive revenue but it dirt cheap to put out there).
Sorry but athletes bring money to the schools.
“.... a system where everybody but the athletes make money on what the athletes do,”
Attending Northwestern (where this case arose) costs $50K+/year. The athletes’ scholarships wipe out that cost. Only the very best athletes (top 1%) ever go on to the pros in any sport. But their educations, if they actually pay attention to that part, stay with them for life.
Some colleges make money off of football and those that do should survive and at least pay players for the jerseys they sell with their name.
But they’re not even allowed to sell their autograph (though the school and NCAA can). And students on academic scholarships get stipends which the NCAA won’t allow.
The simple fact is they’re getting screwed. People getting screwed have an unfortunate habit of forming unions.
Tell truth, if you put more science labs and business (real business) courses and eliminated the athletics, prices for schools would go way down and there would be no new need for millions, with which to build football stadiums. Schools are supposed to be about studying, but now it’s all wrapped up in athletics.
Those schools only make money by furniture of there being in the same conferences as Texas, Michigan, Ohio State,Florida LSU, USC, Oregon, Georgia, Alabama, etc.
Abolish the conferences and the schools are now subsidized by the big schools Will be out of the football business.
The big programs are going to break away and start their own league, I believe.
They will be canceling every other sport.
And girls—no NCAA, no Title IX. Say good bye to women’s hockey, etc.
They make money. The whys and wherefores don’t matter. They make money, thus proving you were wrong when you said most of them don’t make money.
Exactly.
That is exactly what the big programs and the TV networks want.
32 schools, big games on TV every week and no time wasted watching Alabama play South East Mississippi State School for the Left- Handed Dyslexic.
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