Posted on 07/24/2014 7:36:04 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Bring it on. These universities deserve to have unionized players.
Of course that will make all of the union players professional athletes and according to the NCAA rules they would be ineligible for participation in NCAA sports.
If they get what they want, many universities and colleges would likely close down sports scholarships. Only the very large could afford it.
That would mean all benefits received would be taxable.
College football is inevitably going to ditch the NCAA and become their own enterprise.....There probably is going to a “Premier League” of college football consisting solely of the biggest programs that will negotiate a super-mega television contract.
You make a good point. These college athletes are amateurs. If these changes make them professionals, then by definition, they can’t play anymore.
In that case, bye bye college sports. College sports as we know them won’t exist anymore.
There have been some interesting panel discussions on these topics recently on ESPN OTL and College Football Live
Yep. Tell the athletes they will have to pay taxes and payroll taxes back, in cash on a quarterly basis. No team will ever vote to unionize. That’s a significant sum for most of these schools when you add up tuition, room and board and other expenses.
Doing away with the illusion that this is an amateur sport is long overdue.
Major schools will alter the scholarships to be “taxes paid”.
Agents are licking their chops at all of the new potential business.
“Major schools will alter the scholarships to be taxes paid.”
It’s hard to say how this will end up as the case will eventually be ruled on by the Supremes. One of the things that, in my opinion separates college ball from the pros is its amateurism and association with a school, region, state, etc. if this ruling passes all the various hurdles and becomes law I’m guessing that college football will become a non-scholarship game. And, minor league ball much like ib baseball will come on the scene. Had to say if these minor league programs will be affiliated with colleges or pro teams. My guess would be pro teams. But, regardless of how this plays out, college football as we know it, it’s days are numbered.
Football will die without the regular guy.
Just what the progressives want - the end of our national game.
He seems to be laboring under the illusion that student-athletes are students first. Hasn’t been that way since the 80s, maybe even the 70s. That’s part of the reason for this movement. Everybody involved knows these kids are football players first who take just enough easy classes to maintain their eligibility. The universities only want them there to play football, only have them there to play football, and really don’t care what else they do so long as it doesn’t interfere with them playing football. So since they clearly have a job might as well pay them.
Either the NCAA is going to change their rules or the colleges will leave the NCAA. The later is the most likely, all the big power schools are tired of the NCAA and their raft of impossible to follow rules that get enforced 5 years later. There’s a reason the super conferences are forming, to put enough colleges together under few enough umbrellas to form their own organizing body.
Well, strike Northwestern from any viewing this fall.
Anyone else?
Good one.
Didn’t these NLRB decisions come down under false leadership?
Meaning a Judge called them out a month ago. So negating this lawlessness.
There are five events that would occur, if the union concept went through.
1. Every cent of “distribution” to any college player, would be taxed by the IRS and state income tax folks. If you kept the distribution low...like $8k a year...this might not matter, but then the free scholarship itself would have to be taxed as well. So figure a big name college with $20k a year in tuition costs, housing (another $10k), and this $8k of fun money....would lead a single guy to be heavily taxed.
2. The minute that you said that a NCAA football player was worth $8k a year, a NCAA basketball player was worth $9.5k a year and so on....there would be argument about ‘fairness’. Then the gender thing would step in....how could you only give $3k a year to some female volleyball player?
3. Walk in on year one of a scholarship and show some bizarre attitude? Fired. Go look for another college to offer you some cash deal and they will ask how you got fired. That’s the end of your whole career opportunity.
4. At best, there’s only thirty-odd colleges in existence in America that could pay any reasonable amount of money for football players. The next forty colleges? Figure half the amount of money as the big-thirty.
5. What exactly prevents this from going to the next step....paying a 17-year old kid from a high school football team? Or a 16-year old basketball all-star kid? You’d suddenly have a couple of pay-as-you-go high-schools in every state....with kids just transferring in...playing a year or two...to get their diploma and move onto the next league (college pay).
Once these punks figure out the negatives to this....I think this whole idea will go down the tubes in a year or two. The idea of suddenly showing up at some big-name college...getting an IRS note that I might owe $5,000 on federal taxes, and $1,500 on state income taxes....would start to make me real negative about this whole thing.
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