NLRB rules Northwestern University players can form a union

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Great news for the players and for college football as a whole.

[DemPGH]

Excellent! College athletes earn athletic departments coffers upon coffers of cash, and that they are not compensated in some way is ridiculous. I basically believe that collegiate student athletes should be compensated somehow.

And management will say, "Okay then, we'll just shut it down." Well, shut it down! You're cutting off a huge source of income, and no one will be happy about that either.

[bullmoose88]

Excellent! College athletes earn athletic departments coffers upon coffers of cash, and that they are not compensated in some way is ridiculous. I basically believe that collegiate student athletes should be compensated somehow.

And management will say, "Okay then, we'll just shut it down." Well, shut it down! You're cutting off a huge source of income, and no one will be happy about that either.

My understanding is that the only sport that generates money for the university or college is Football (with perhaps a mens basketball squad or two being a net giver)...am I mistaken?

How many players on average are on a NCAA football squad...70? 80?  How many, on average, are receiving a scholarship?

[TNF]

This is certainly a birthday present in and of itself! Good luck to these workers in their fight to establish a union.

[NewYorkExpress]

I'm honestly of the opinion there shouldn't be such a thing as "college athletics" unionized or otherwise... The two are not compatible.

[Zioneer]

Weren't the Green Bay Packers the only unionized team in all of American football prior to this announcement?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Excellent! College athletes earn athletic departments coffers upon coffers of cash, and that they are not compensated in some way is ridiculous. I basically believe that collegiate student athletes should be compensated somehow.

And management will say, "Okay then, we'll just shut it down." Well, shut it down! You're cutting off a huge source of income, and no one will be happy about that either.

My understanding is that the only sport that generates money for the university or college is Football (with perhaps a mens basketball squad or two being a net giver)...am I mistaken?

How many players on average are on a NCAA football squad...70? 80?  How many, on average, are receiving a scholarship?

http://www.scholarshipstats.com/ncaalimits.html

For FBS schools the limit is 85 full scholarships, for FCS schools it is 63 scholarships which can be split among up to 85 students.  For Division II the limit is 36 scholarships which can be split as much as the school wants.

Football, basketball, and rarely baseball are the sports that sometimes are net revenue generators.  But even in Division I, most teams are not net revenue makers unless one assumes alumni contributions are driven by sports results.

Incidentally, mutlisport athletes that do football or basketball are always counted toward the limits on the numbers of scholarship athletes for those sports and never their second sport.  With other NCAA sports you can mix and match freely up to the limits of scholarships for each sport.  For example someone who was on both the tennis and wrestling teams and who received a half scholarship could have their scholarship credited to any mixture of the two sports.  But someone who played both football and wrestling would always have their scholarship count against football.

[7,052,770]

Excellent! College athletes earn athletic departments coffers upon coffers of cash, and that they are not compensated in some way is ridiculous. I basically believe that collegiate student athletes should be compensated somehow.

And management will say, "Okay then, we'll just shut it down." Well, shut it down! You're cutting off a huge source of income, and no one will be happy about that either.

My understanding is that the only sport that generates money for the university or college is Football (with perhaps a mens basketball squad or two being a net giver)...am I mistaken?

How many players on average are on a NCAA football squad...70? 80?  How many, on average, are receiving a scholarship?

http://www.scholarshipstats.com/ncaalimits.html

For FBS schools the limit is 85 full scholarships, for FCS schools it is 63 scholarships which can be split among up to 85 students.  For Division II the limit is 36 scholarships which can be split as much as the school wants.

Football, basketball, and rarely baseball are the sports that sometimes are net revenue generators.  But even in Division I, most teams are not net revenue makers unless one assumes alumni contributions are driven by sports results.

Incidentally, mutlisport athletes that do football or basketball are always counted toward the limits on the numbers of scholarship athletes for those sports and never their second sport.  With other NCAA sports you can mix and match freely up to the limits of scholarships for each sport.  For example someone who was on both the tennis and wrestling teams and who received a half scholarship could have their scholarship credited to any mixture of the two sports.  But someone who played both football and wrestling would always have their scholarship count against football.

You can thank Bear Bryant (and plenty of others, I'm sure) for that. Alabama's "swimming team" existing solely to give scholarships to extra football players.

[traininthedistance]

Weren't the Green Bay Packers the only unionized team in all of American football prior to this announcement?

No, they were the only publicly owned team, and still are.  The big four team sports are all unionized.