The event horizon, part two:
Follow the money. Unions, having drained the lifeblood out of every industry that is or used to be profitable, have now been given leave to pillage one of the few places they have been denied.
I have no dog in this fight, but this is a clusterfuck writ large. Atheletes at a college level are surrounded by money, not a lot individually but as a group, they are indeed. And the NLRB wants their bite, deserving or not. Anyone who thinks this is about protecting the atheletes is a moron.
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They’re already paid and pampered with scholarships and exposure.
Are scholarships taxable income?
They will be if these guys “organize”.
I don’t know that is say pampered. Sure you get some football players that get a full ride but there are a lot of kids that just get a couple hundred bucks here and there and those kids will be hurt by this.
Well, they will say it will protect the ones that do not go on to the pros.
You have 100 top tier football programs with 80 athletes each competing for the 1800 slots in the pros. Yes I am counting all the pro slots and in any given year about 20%-50% of them are turned over.
The unions have never been about the member. Or if they were it was long ago. It is all power and from that you get the money.
If I where the college I would scotch the football program. The money it brings in cannot offset the loss.
Like they said in Dune, if you can kill a thing you own the thing.
“Anyone who thinks this is about protecting the atheletes is a moron.”
They had a panel on this on Meet the Press Sunday. I spent half the time sitting there staring at the screen in slack-jawed amazement, wondering if I’d perhaps slipped into an alternate universe, and half of it smacking myself on the side of the head, trying to stop the steady drone of bullshit in my ear.
Rule Four has saved that TV so many times it’s not funny.
Every time the NLRB ruling comes up, I think “Didn’t NLRB just make all those athletes ineligible for NCAA play–much less scholarships?”
As a guy that has a college age kid who has been offered some money here and there, some of it athletic in nature, I can tell you this is about seeing a big pile of money and wanting a part of it. The NLRB in this situation is no different than ambulance chasing lawyers.
The article in the WSJ today makes a couple of salient points:
1) The ruling only affects Northwestern University at this point; and
2) It will be tied up in litigation for years. Northwestern is already planning an appeal to the full NLRB. If they can tie it up long enough to get Jugears out of office and some less knee-jerk labor friendly commissioners on the NLRB, who knows.
One can hope, Nathan.
Well, this can’t be good. Everyone else seeing the “Bad behavior” shit at the top of the screen?
Yep
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Monkeys., I had to use my phone to deactivate my spam filter. Dammit, why can’t people leave shit alone?
Colleges have football teams? Well, shucks, who knew? And, now, who cares?
As I see it, it will destroy any college sports that is not revenue-plus like golf and lacrosse and soccer and fill-in-the-blank.
Good for lawyers and bad for athletes. Watch the Olympics….
If the pro sports teams want to develop talent, let them form a farm club system like baseball did. Right now, not only do private colleges act as a free pond of fish for the pro teams to put out the trot line, public universities that are funded by the states also subsidize pro teams, often not even the ones in the states that groomed the talent. So you can have a Purdue quarterback making money for a Louisiana team, Indiana tax dollars helping to train and develop him, then Louisiana getting his income tax revenue. Plus, with a farm system, you don’t have 8,000 people each thinking he has a equal shot at one of 1800 slots there. But then the employer picks up the tab for OJT, and as we know employers have been offloading training onto job prospects for decades now, so I don’t see that development. Right now the NFL/NBA swim through the sea with their mouths open harvesting nourishment like the spoonfish does, and when you have a sweet setup like that, why change unless forced to change? And let players get paid, receive scholarships (paid for by the pros), receive gifts, all rules off.
You have 140+ years of college sport history to buck; good luck on that.
Analyze the conflict. This is NOT just about unionizing, the union is a stalking horse here. The real conflict is between the NCAA and the NFL. Who has the most to lose? Its the NCAA. Who has the most to gain? Its the NFL, which likely has a plan on the shelf to run college football as farm or minor league clubs.
Wanna see how this all shakes out? Look at baseball, where the for-pay leagues reach down into tiny markets.
Stick a fork in the NCAA, its done with it’s priggish anti-booster rules and it’s ham-handed attempts to “level the playing field” by breaking up the big dynastic programs. If the NCAA survives in college football at all, it will be relegated to being a marketing arm of the NFL, which will write all the rules for college players.
Dog, I know bubkhis about sports but I would not be surprised to hear that what you say is true.