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Northwestern players win unionization case against school


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From NWU:

"While we respect the NLRB process and the regional director's opinion, we disagree with it. Northwestern believes strongly that our student-athletes are not employees, but students. Unionization and collective bargaining are not the appropriate methods to address the concerns raised by student athletes."

I'll believe that student-athletes are simply students as soon as someone can skip a football or basketball game to meet with a project group or study for a final without repercussions.

 

 

it just means your athletic career would suffer instead of your grades or the midterms.  I have no problem with student athletes choosing to be students over athletes.  if they were smart, that's what they would do.  the odds of having a pro career are ridiculously low even for the kids good enough to make it in a division 1 school.

 

these kids are receiving compensation for what they do, a free ride at a presitigious university that many others would almost literally would take a life for that kind of opportunity.   If some knucklehead wants to squander that because he "just wants to play ball," that's not on the NCAA to compensate for his ignorance.

 

if a kid fresh out of high school wants to play ball, go let em play ball!  this idiotic one and done rule is ruining college sports to a degree, it's making kids that don't want to go to college go anyway and for what?  

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There is a massive difference between revenue sports athletes (football, basketball, etc) and non-revenue sports. Will be interesting to see the effects especially as it pertains to Title 9.

 

 

yeah exactly, the major sports are major revenue sources, but the smaller sports are not making any money for the school.  this could screw those sports in a big way

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it just means your athletic career would suffer instead of your grades or the midterms. I have no problem with student athletes choosing to be students over athletes. if they were smart, that's what they would do. the odds of having a pro career are ridiculously low even for the kids good enough to make it in a division 1 school.

these kids are receiving compensation for what they do, a free ride at a presitigious university that many others would almost literally would take a life for that kind of opportunity. If some knucklehead wants to squander that because he "just wants to play ball," that's not on the NCAA to compensate for his ignorance.

if a kid fresh out of high school wants to play ball, go let em play ball! this idiotic one and done rule is ruining college sports to a degree, it's making kids that don't want to go to college go anyway and for what?

What happens if the player gets injured and loses his scholarship?

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