re: Northwestern players denied request to form first union for athletes

The vast majority of college athletes don't generate revenue, let alone a net profit, for their school. If we are to reform the system entirely, we could risk upending college sports as we know it. It would make the ramifications of Title IX look like child's play.

There are a number of problems that people bring up, with no uniformity of solutions. Usually, the goal posts of the situation shift between how much a Leonard Fournette generates for LSU vs. the issues of players not having time to have a job. Those are entirely separate issues.

Unfortunately, I think the tide of public opinion is turning such that your average MSB poster thinks he is trying to help out an underprivileged kid and that some drunk tailgater posting on the rant is a selfish racist trying to keep college athletes down. I think that's overly simplistic and ignores some of the huge difficulties in coming up with a solution...ie, where does all the money come from?