I’m not for any government sanctioned or promoted unionizing ‘rights’.
But so long as we have them, they might as well extend to our play as much as our work.
Perhaps it’ll wake a few people up to the absurdity of it all.
Ruling kind of makes hash of amateur status doesn’t it? And since they are now employees and there is no law anywhere mandating that a concern must have an equal number of male/female employees it also makes hash of Title 9. Schools can now spend anything they want on mens’ sports, call the players employees and drop every women’s sport into limbo.
Unionization, the kiss of death.
If student athletes are employees, then their free tuition and other benefits such as meals, rooms, etc. are wages and taxable, no? Given the cost of these items, it puts most big time college football players in the category of $50,000 per year wage earners without even receiving a cash salary.
They would have to bargain for a lot more money in cash just to be able to pay their taxes.
If they get cut from a team for non-performance, won’t they be entitled to unemployment benefits?
There will be a lot of unexpected ramifications of this ruling if it is allowed to go forward.
At the big schools, everyone makes money off of college football except for the players. The schools make money, the NCAA makes money, the networks make money and even the video game makers make money off of using the players’ likenesses.
The athletes make nothing, while all the others make millions or billions.
Good move for the athletes.
Northwestern is in Evanston/Chicago. Chicago is in Illinois. Illinois is in the Rust Belt aka the Upper Midwest.
So, these ‘intelligent’ Northwestern students, many of whom also grew up in the Rust Belt, now attend a school in the Rust Belt and can see the Rust Belt in ruins all around them and still conclude that unions are a good thing.
What should the colleges expect? Over the past years they have destroyed rivalries by cutting up conferences to squeeze every last dime out of football. When conference chairmen go on bragging about how much money they got from the last tv deal, don’t be surprised if the players that make it possible come knocking on the door for their cut.
Wait a minute, if football players can unionize, why can’t regular ole students? Can they form fan unions? Where does the democrat party money laundering scheme end?
Does this mean if the Wisconsin football team unionizes that their dues will not automatically be collected since it is a state school and Gov. Walker signed that legislation.
Fine. Let’s just drop all college sports.
Wonder if this will affect how the draft works?
And the colleges have the right to cancel the football programs.
Stupid jocks.
Federal agency ? Yeah right
Bye bye NCAA, you deserve what you get.
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.
Why should only college athletes be allowed to organize?
How about college students in Econ-101? They should be allowed to organize, too...
the underling who made that asinine statement has no more authority on the subject than I do.
So scholarships will be treated as income? Imagine the income tax on a full ride to Stanford or Harvard.
How will a walk on be compensated?
Good. The athletes can exchange their worthless hotel management degrees for real paychecks.
These “non-profit” colleges make big money off of these unpaid kids who are little more than cannon fodder.