re: Dartmouth basketball players are school employees the NLRB rules

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I dont see this altering it much more than the path its already taking

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it changes the very foundation of amateur athletics. Players for decades have been compensated well into the 6 figures simply for beign football players. Now that everyone deemed that that wasn't enough and now they're going to be employees you know what's going to happen? Some schools other than that absolute big boys can say "ok fine, you're an employee. Here's $25/hour. But we've retooled our benefits package so tuition, room and board, clothing, medical care, meal plan, etc are no longer included and you'll be responsible for paying for that on your own".

Sure, most players would not want that and will simply leave. But the fact that that's what some smaller schools willbe FORCED to due because of budget constraints is just absurd. I mean it boggles the mind than in less than 10 years we've gone from "AMATEUR - STUDENT - ATHLETE" to paying high school kids 7 figures to come sit on the bench for 1 season then let him transfer wherever he wants to the highest bidder. All because the fricking government had to somehow, for some reason, insert themselves into college sports.

But hey! everyone clamoring that it wasn't fair that kids couldn't get paid for being in an EA sports video game are sure happy now.