NLRB ruling on Northwestern football players opens up more questions than answers

WaPo ^

[chessplayer]

And it’s not the stuff of revolution, despite the common-sense-defeating opinion this week from a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board named Peter Sung Ohr, who found that scholarship football players at Northwestern should be regarded as “employees” simply because their sport produces revenue and because football takes work. His 24-page decision that they should be allowed to unionize was a lot of senseless knee-jerkism.

[only1percent]

The decision said that rendering exclusive services in exchange for pay is “employment” and you can’t make it not employment by calling the pay “scholarships.” It’s a non-ideological decision and if Congress doesn’t like it they can either explicitly define scholarships as non-employment no matter what the services conditions they impose, or they can simply provide that student-employees of private universities have no collective bargaining rights.

[chessplayer]

The NCAA is nothing but a huge racket when it comes to major college sports, so who really cares if it disappears?

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NCAA Division I has been ruined by it’s own success. Divisions II and III are still good. And I like the NAIA.

[saywhatagain]

"I had no idea the demand."

That thought brought back a rush of memories. Absolutely understand that emotion. I too, and most others not properly prepared for the demands and expectations required.

I had to smile reading another one of your comments where you say they need to come up with new rules for an antiquated system (my words). My college roommate said the same exact words in 1974. Long time issue.

Sadly, everything else i observe around me with todays generation, the solutions are only making the problem(s) worse.

Take the money out of the programs and most of the problems go away. Is one solution. Of course not practical.