re: NLRB suit on behalf of 12 USC football players started 12/18

The new NCAA president said he was in favor of a payment structure to student athletes.

Of course it can be successfully argued these SAs can be considered employees. They provide services in exchange for compensation(whatever that may be). They are directed when and where to go by the university. The services rendered are
almost completely facilitated by university’s resources and its direction to accomplish the service. Failure to comply with school policies can result in rescission of the scholarship and/or expulsion of the student athlete.

Nonetheless, I think this is all meant to sever all the non-p5 schools with a new entity as an exclusive league with a 12 team playoff. I believe the B10 pres said a few months back this is moving towards an “AFC-NFC structure” or something to that effect. I can see the “conference” as they are now carved up to make more geographical sense if this is the end game.

Speaking as an advocate, that would be sick. No more Ball St, Grambling non-conference games. You play Oregon in Autzen or Penn State comes to Tiger Stadium as a non-conference matchup. That would be a beautiful thing.

A major issue is that mid majors like UL need their own league so they could compete for a national championships like McNeese can. Whether they will have the resources to pull that off WTF knows.