Dartmouth basketball players are school employees the NLRB rules

I believe this will escalate to the SCOTUS who may rule differently, but then again given Kavanaughs explanation on NIL, maybe not. It ain’t gonna be pretty for CFB if they uphold the decision.

Everybody go dust off their old PS3 and find you copy of NCAA football 09 and remember the glory days of college football.

This is exactly what's needed. The NCAA sat back and let college athletics be destroyed under their watch. The system has been broken, it cant go on as it is today. They will need to destroy the model and start fresh. The only way this gets fixed is if everyone hurts, everyone looses, everyone bleeds, and it costs everyone $$$$. Rest assured this wont take long, they will have the system repaired and workable in short order. There is too much money at stake.

I love college athletics, but I hate what it has become. I want the players compensated, but unregulated free agency was destine to fail from the start. Your a fool if you believed otherwise.

I keep seeing how contracts will prevent players from moving around. What happens when a player obviously wants out, and decides to sit out so they can get “fired” and then go anywhere they want to go?

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CFB will be fine and making the players employees will actually limit transfer rules as you can sign people to binding contracts.

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Unless part of the actual contract between players and schools includes the ability to leave wherever

Didn’t the NCAA pass some initial legislation saying that in 2027 division 1 universities can directly pay nil deals and have set aside 100k per athlete in a trust for said athlete???

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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.

It may get weird for the Ivy League and Patriot League because they don’t offer scholarships, so they can’t claim players are already getting compensated.

Any school actually providing scholarships can nickel and dime the NLRB to death showing compensation that takes these kids near or above minimum wage.

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It all started when colleges started turning it into big business.

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college football has always been a cash cow. The 21st century and TV contracts making them even MORE of a cash cow shouldn't radically and fundamentally alter the way the sport works.

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he NCAA was profiting off of un paid labor.

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unpaid labor?

First of all, these are college students. Literally. Amateur student athletes. They arent' laborers working in a factory. So the fact that schools make money from the football team shoudln't be some kind of big shock? But let's move beyond that.

-Free tuition. Over 4 years that could damn near approach 6 figures by itself, especially if attending an out of state school.
-Free meals. When I was in school it was roughly $2K per semester for the dining hall.
-Free clothing/gear
-Free medical care
-Free housing
-A stipend (yes, actual money. This has exsited a while)
-A televised job interview for the next level which could lead to a multi multi million dollar job if you do well enough

All of that WELL surpasses 6 figures in total compensation. Let's not pretend these kids are 12 year old nike factory workers in china being whipped to churn out more sneakers. These guys are well compensated big men on campus.

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But it was the right call.

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It's not close to the right call and the results that we see now speak to that. If a judge saw that some yahoo was suing the NCAA over money he should've said "gtfo, it's college sports are you serious?" Now because of waht's happened we dont' even have college athletics. We have paid professionals pretending to be college students that are traveling mercenaries donning the uniform of whoever is the highest bidder for that specific 12 month period. That isn't college sports.