The NCAA sucks.
I was a photographer for 11 d2 and d3 national championships. I was licensed to sell photos to the athletes and their families (really—who else is going to want d3 field hockey pictures? I could only sell them for two weeks and I had to give the NCAA 50% of the revenue. So I had to increase my price to these kids and their families. This was done under the premise that I would screw the families and gouge the prices to them.
It is like working for the mafia. I have no respect for them at all. I hope this union thing puts them out of business.
Never going to happen.
The NLRB ruling hasn't even made it all the way up the hearing process and still has to go to Federal Court. That's a decade away. Even if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a union -- it won't -- universities can't allow it to happen because they couldn't possibly function without the near slave labor provided by senior undergrads and graduate students to run labs, correct papers, and do teaching.
The universities would have to cut faculty salaries if that happened, or do away with their sports programs. Universities are run by their Faculty Senates, most of whom don't want sports on their campuses. Guess which one will happen?