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Northwestern players get union vote
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| 3/26/2014
| Brian Bennett
Posted on 03/26/2014 3:21:03 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, and major conference college football and men’s basketball are nothing but giant entertainment conglomerates like Disney. I like watching them, but they as relevant as a Hollywood blockbuster. The only difference is that you hope that the end is not scripted. If someone is making millions of dollars off of my play, I’d want money too.
To: Lou Budvis
It will be OVER for the NCAA down the road.
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posted on
03/26/2014 4:41:41 PM PDT
by
mason-dixon
(As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
To: iowamark
The NCAA, the conferences and the schools have been playing with fire for a long time now with their merchandising, marketing, and billion dollar broadcasting deals. Once they started to sell jerseys with peoples names on them and video games with players' likenesses the trap was set. Now the former players are demanding a share of revenue they produced.
The schools created this monster. The NLRB and it's cozy union buddies have just thrown open the cage door and let the monster loose.
The NCAA knew EA Sports had real players 'hidden' in college football games
Ed O'Bannon vs. the NCAA: The saga continues
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posted on
03/26/2014 6:08:39 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: Bushbacker1
All true, cept you missed the part where they get a free education! (Sharing in the profits by way of an education) They get that because of the dollar value the school places on their talent.
To: iowamark
One way to stop this madness would be to join the rest of the world in how sports is organized. The United States should decouple sports and education like the rest of the world. In Canada, you want to play in the NHL you play in Junior Hockey, the CHL leagues, not in college(in Canada that is.) My daughter's college, McGill, has a good hockey team. The players are mostly guys who did not make the pros from Juniors and some who washed out of the AHL or ECHL. They are in college to get an education and hockey is an extracurricular activity. In the UK, you aspire to play for Man U, you do not go to a university to further your soccer career. Instead you join one of the clubs in your teenage years and work to move up in their system to the first team. Let the NFL develop it's own development system independent of the colleges. Now they have it for free. Let the NBA expand the D league to accommodate the influx of more 18 year olds who do not belong in college. MLB can bring back D,C,and B leagues back to the minor leagues, like they had back in the 50’s. When it comes to sports and education being linked, the US is an outlier.
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posted on
03/26/2014 6:32:11 PM PDT
by
gusty
To: montag813
Yep, anything that kills the NCAA cartel is a good thing. The NFL should set up farm teams. There are way more than enough tax-payer funded, empty stadiums in the country.
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posted on
03/26/2014 7:07:55 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: iowamark
Using the cited rationale, students on academic scholarships can equally be deemed to be "employees" ie, based on the "time spent in their (studies) and the fact that scholarships are tied to "performance in the classroom..."
If this absurdity satnds it will mean the end of college ball altogether at many institutions. There will be a lot more cabbies and drivers of Pepsi trucks available, and a lot fewer young black college students if this takes hold.
To: demshateGod
Sanctions against whom? The University and NCAA are on the same side.
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posted on
03/26/2014 8:01:28 PM PDT
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Colonel_Flagg
(Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
To: WriteOn
True. The NCAA is a non profit. How many other non profits are unionized?
They should lose their non profit status if they unionize.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:23:06 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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