The coaches - and the schools - make millions
of dollars off their game every year...
A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled on Monday that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes.
All 15 members of the Dartmouth men’s basketball team signed a petition in September asking to join Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union, which already represents some other employees at the Ivy League school in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Unionizing would allow the players to negotiate not only over salary but working conditions, including practice hours and travel.
I'm at crossed purposes on this. What do you guys think?
How can you pay tuition to a college on one hand and be called an employee on the other?
ReplyDeleteSame way SEIU donates to politicians, then their workers in government job get raises with your tax money from the politician they supported.
Delete"And no mo of dis skool shit. Ima come here to play bassetball not play no f'kin skool"
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the coaches feel about it.
ReplyDeleteTuition at Dartmouth is $65k a year- for throwing a ball through a ring?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I disagree - they are getting a free education as well as the opportunity to move into the lucrative professional leagues.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Should have to start paying scholarship back with "wages".
DeleteI'm for it. My reasoning is that eventually this will lead to the demise of college athletics. Since the nominal but ignored raison d'etre of college is "education", killing college sports is a desirable goal because it might (but probably won't) put focus back on the reason colleges were created. Today, colleges are hedge funds with an entertainment division (sports) that focus on left wing/socialist political indoctrination. ANYTHING that cuts into the cash flow/reward structure encouraging the wrong behaviors should be promoted.
ReplyDeleteMy experience with college athletes (decades ago) as a UNC grad student hired to tutor them was that as a group, the jocks are dumber than a box of rocks. There are notable exceptions, but they ARE exceptions. For the vast majority, they should not be in college; they have neither the intelligence nor the desire to learn. On the men's side, particularly, they are generally bad people. As is well known, UNC's programs were particularly fetid, but it's a general rule.
Society wants the circus. Let the "student" athletes unionize: it will lend clarity to the actual state of affairs.
When I transferred from a loony tunes Big 10 University to one I felt offered a better education (mostly the prof's spoke English unlike the Big 10 one) at orientation they explained that some years earlier they did away with all sports. "Too much trouble and no one burns the campus down if we win..... or lose". No one gave a damn.
Deleteif they are paid, then they should lose their scholarships and pay for the school out of their own pockets.
ReplyDeleteThey have agreed to a contract already.....we will participate in an athletic endeavor and in turn will receive an education...period....
ReplyDeleteand in major sports at most D1 U's, they get the degree (education if you want to call it that) without even going to class or doing the work.
DeleteI already think professional teams make too much money. I they start paying school teams, where do you start and stop, high scool, intermediate, elementary? Once thiey're paid, they become PROFESSIONAL !
ReplyDeleteThere goes NLRB a Democrat run crime organization throwing a bone to the SEIU purple people beaters so they can kick back dues to the democrat party. Just like they do with state and federal employees dues. Then the elected officials give the employees a raise with our tax money.
ReplyDelete"Student athletes" will become "Non-student athletes".
ReplyDeleteI have little doubt that foobol and bassitbol players at D1 have ever seen the inside of a classroom. At those players that actually get in games. D1 college football teams have 100-110 players. Half never ever get in a game. There job is to graduate so the school can brag, "50% of our football players graduate."
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