[VAGolf]

"If student athletes are being extorted, would someone please extort my kids to Stanford?"

[TH Spangler]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2008 ... hort-paper

Though the case at UNC is more than five years old, it is in the news again for a number of reasons.

For one, it has a trial date in June, so this testimony is pertinent to the next few months. For another, Northwestern football players were just approved to unionize by the National Labor Relations Board, which has thus declared them employees of the university.

It has become clear that, with these cases looming, the NCAA is staring at a double-barrelled shotgun of change.

[jbock13]

There's no way this sticks...but if it does make no mistake. It's the end of scholarship athletics as we know it. A small handful of schools will keep their football and basketball teams. The rest will drop athletics altogether. The financial ramifications are simply too great.

absolutely correct.

I'm a champion of unions for obvious reasons, but this is completely ridiculous

talking about missing the forest for the trees: it would appear the NLRB has made comparisons between A. [schools providing items for their students while requiring them to perform] and B. [employers providing items for their employees while requiring them to perform] and drawing the conclusion that C. ["students" = "employees"]

all the while ignoring the white elephant in the room: THEY ARE AMATEUR COLLEGE KIDS PLAYING SPORTS

another huge problem is that while the ruling focuses on football, you know Title IX will will ensure that we end up paying women's sports as well.

funny point lost here tho: NLRB rulings affect public schools not privates (LU)

file under "lawyers can eff up anything"

Only the naive believe that amateurs can be the backbone of a multi-billion dollar business.

But here is a detailed explanation of how the ruling came about, in case anyone hasn't seen that http://www.sbnation.com/college-footbal ... stern-nlrb

Workers of the world, unite! (intro L'Internationale)

[Purple Haize]

"If student athletes are being extorted, would someone please extort my kids to Stanford?"