Northwestern football players seek to join union

Revenue sports have nothing to do with 'education.' Time to quit pretending they do.

 

They must be counting everyone that comes to Phillips Gym to work out. I used to go to OC games for shits and giggles...saw some pretty funny basketball over the years. Interesting place to grow up.

 

Regional NLRB says the players are employees and can form a union.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-northwestern-union-bid-20140326,0,6454823.story

 

Cue the "If they don't like it, they don't have to play" crowd.

 

A long way to go, obviously, but this is a huge decision.

 

Hmm.

RT @SportsBizMiss: NLRB decision only applies to scholarship football players at private universities, not public universities.

I guess scholarship football players at state schools have to file on their own? As do scholarship athletes in other sports?

 

My understanding is that the petition didn't cover other schools or other sports. The union needed to have more than a third of Northwestern's 85 scholarship football players sign union cards to bring it to the NLRB regional office.

Athletes at other schools in the top football and basketball conferences will likely follow. Won't be happening in golf and fencing and swimming.

 

Interesting. Of course, that's not slowing the full-on "OMG THEY ARE KILLING COLLEGE FOOTBALL!" rants I'm seeing.

 

Not to mention the TAKE AWAY THEIR SCHOLARSHIPS. THEY CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!!!! Brigade.

 

From Wall St. Journal:

http://is.gd/i01VgV

 

Well mark this day as the end of college sports as we know it.

 

Eh.

It's changed before. It'll change again.

Knute Rockne used to pull players off the train to Syracuse as it passed through South Bend. If Twitter existed when practices like that were halted, I'm sure that office workers would have spit their lunch-time rye whiskey on the screen when they saw that news come across.