by exD1dad » Sat Sep 06, 2014 1:34 am
Union worker numbers have been dropping year after year for over a decade. I have very mixed feelings on this topic & will drag in a whole nother topic too.
Pro Football & BB will never subsidize NCAA despite it truly being the "minor leagues". They don't have to because they'll just stand on the sidelines & let the colleges fight it out with their attorneys & the Nc2A's as well. The lawyers are always the big winners.
Pale Rider I'm not sure if you're old enough or followed college sports that were totally eliminated through Title IX (look it up) which has given opportunities to countless female athletes. It is a fact major universities eliminated many entire teams & now many bit time schools have up to a dozen less teams, Alabama for instance has 15 teams. My DD's HS has 31 different teams. When I wrestled at James Madison U in the late '70's we had 26 teams , now they have 17 & no wrestling. They will point out where the money goes (not all of it) say all the great things they do blah blah blah
I bring this up because this is what Universities will say.
As a vested Union member I know more than your average Joe. It takes capital to start a Union, how will athletes pay dues?, well, from their paychecks. I think it's all talk, worthy of a conversation, yes but colleges will always say Student/Athlete whether it's appropriate or not.
"It's not giving up if you discover you've been chasing the wrong destiny" -Morley LA street artist who posted this on Melrose Avenue in Jan '14