Northwestern Football Players File Suit to Unionize

[ontheblack]

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10363430/outside-lines-northwestern-wildcats-football-players-trying-join-labor-union

Thoughts?

[PDad]

Maybe Obama will sign an executive order so they're covered by Obamacare. They should be leery though, if he promises they can keep their scholarship if they like it.

[Lunatic Fringe]

The ramifications of paying revenue producing players will affect the non revenue sports. How would a successful players union interact with the strictures of Title IX?

[jonriv]

The response if schools college football players unionized would be simple- no more scholarships and real student athletes