Unions took the single wealthiest city in all the world and turned it into a third world nation within 50 years. Now unions have convinced Northwestern football players to unionize.
I have been saying college athletes should have the freedom to work and get paid for endorsements for decades. This would immediatly address all the inequities that would come from players and athletes from other sports getting paid the same as star athletes. Every college student is allowed to have a part time job, and some degrees flat out require it. So why not let stars get paid for their stardom......especially if the alleged reason for not allowing them to work was intrussions into study and practice time.
On the other hand, unionizing will make NCAA football irrecogniseable within a decade. Just the lawsuits will be unpredictable and crippling to programs that struggle economically.....namely ours. The really crippling lawsuits will be from former players suing their old teams for revenue lost.
In fact, the money issue will flip the program budgets. Football used to fund unprofitable sports. This will make them unaffordable.
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I have been saying college athletes should have the freedom to work and get paid for endorsements for decades. This would immediatly address all the inequities that would come from players and athletes from other sports getting paid the same as star athletes. Every college student is allowed to have a part time job, and some degrees flat out require it. So why not let stars get paid for their stardom......especially if the alleged reason for not allowing them to work was intrussions into study and practice time.
On the other hand, unionizing will make NCAA football irrecogniseable within a decade. Just the lawsuits will be unpredictable and crippling to programs that struggle economically.....namely ours. The really crippling lawsuits will be from former players suing their old teams for revenue lost.
In fact, the money issue will flip the program budgets. Football used to fund unprofitable sports. This will make them unaffordable.
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