stupid. Just Stupid.
Try it.
If you want it to die.
If the football players are employees doesn't that mean that they have turned Pro and are no longer eligible to play in the NCAA?
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Call it what it is; a farm system for pro ball. It should be run and paid for as it were just that. As so many things in universities now, completely useless and of no purpose for what a university should be and do.
Where is the constitutional federal question in this case? Otherwise the only way this federal court could hear the case is if there was diversity (plaintiffs from a different state than the defendants). Very hard to believe a local issue like this had diversity. If it is a diversity case, the judge would need to rule along the lines of state law.
If this wasn’t a diversity case, then it would seem that this federal judge has no constitutional authority to interfere with this high-school issue and the locality with he state’s support should nullify and reject this invalid federal court decision.
You wanna see boycotts of CFB and CBB games? Try it and watch the numbers fall like crazy
ESPN will also be in panic mode, more so than now
Don’t you have to be an employee??
If you’re not a college football player, why would anyone care? Since our colleges are unfortunately farm systems for the NFL or NBA, why not have the NFL or the NBA teams sign individual players and pay them a minor league salary.
I don't know that this analysis is correct - keeping a scholarship is dependent on all of these things: performance, academics, institutional rules, everything.
By the same token, there are requirements - and most are not written down - of "regular" employees... performance, showing up, maintaining industry competencies, etc.
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Patriots are reminded that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect labor-type union agendas, the feds therefore having no constitutional authority to foster union growth imo.
College football players should be paid.
However, instead of a weekly paycheck, place an amount of cash in a trust fund for each player to be paid only when they graduate and not paid to players who sign NFL contracts for an amount that is greater than their existing trust fund.
Their talent, and their entertainment value, are assets that exist very briefly.
They have every right to extract as much compensation as possible within that very limited period of time.
Most important - it will upset many alumni, which hopefully means that alumni contributions to America's thousands of Marxist re-education camps will go down.
So long, college football. Nice knowin’ ya.
Don’t they have to be professionals to join a union?
And if they’re professionals they can’t play in the NCAA. Or can they?