Dartmouth Delivers Potential Serious Blow To NCAA

[ashokan]

SEIU. Is there anything it can't ruin?

The TV media was long losing ability to influence masses. Sports were only thing people watched TV for en masse.

When the NFL started (2008) with the month long cancer drives, and had every high school team wearing pink socks, the various political/economic actors saw sports as a place to insert themselves and get traction. The billions of dollars sloshing around in college sports were a lure of course but so was the ability to insert focus on agendas. I knew the pink socks thing would turn football started into a circus. No surprise the push began with Northwestern since Chicago is Mecca for organizers.

CFB aggravated all this with ridiculous salaries for overrated coaches while adjuncts were sleeping in their cars, and kids were getting knees wrecked while getting penalized for free hamburgers and such

 

[RUScrew85]

The TV media was long losing ability to influence masses. Sports were only thing people watched TV for en masse.

When the NFL started (2008) with the month long cancer drives, and had every team wearing pink socks, the various political/economic actors saw sports as a place to insert themselves and get traction. The billions of dollars sloshing around in college sports were a lure of course but so was the ability to insert focus on agendas. I knew the pink socks thing would turn football started into a circus. No surprise the push began with Northwestern since Chicago is Mecca for organizers.

CFB aggravated all this with ridiculous salaries for overrated coaches while adjuncts were sleeping in their cars, and kids were getting knees wrecked while getting penalized for free hamburgers and such

That's a bingo.

 

[RUhasarrived]

Live Free Throws or Die?
Will "Look For the Union Label" replace the National Anthem before tipoff?

 

[yesrutgers01]

I didn't read the whole thread but if athletes become employees- if they get injured and are out for more than a week, do they get workers comp? If they are kicked off the team for some reason, can they apply for unemployment?

 

[MADHAT1]

Does this mean the players could go to arbitration over a C+ because they think there is no "just cause" for a grade that low?

anything is possible , even professors grading athletics harsher then the rest of class because he doesn't like the fact they belong to a union.

 

[Retired711]

anything is possible , even professors grading athletics harsher then the rest of class because he doesn't like the fact they belong to a union.

I'm sure there are athletes who already think they're being picked out for harsh grading. I didn't teach undergraduates so I have no way of knowing whether this is true or not.

 

[mdk02]

anything is possible , even professors grading athletics harsher then the rest of class because he doesn't like the fact they belong to a union.

Because they're in a union? Not at Dartmouth. The 2 who voted against it are more likely, but doubtful for them as well.

 

[RUScrew85]

anything is possible , even professors grading athletics harsher then the rest of class because he doesn't like the fact they belong to a union.

Lol. Way more likely the reverse happens.