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"Sean Clifford, Penn State’s sixth-year quarterback, gathered his Nittany Lion teammates in the football facility without the knowledge of his coach or athletic director for a presentation from Jason Stahl, the leader of a nascent athletes’ rights group called the College Football Players Association. Stahl says he was hurried in through a back door.
Then a Penn State strength and conditioning coach walked into the room and accidentally interrupted the meeting. News of the labor agitation went straight up the food chain at Penn State and all the way to the desk of Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren. Discussion of unionizing athletes has long been a hard “no” for nearly everyone in college sports administration.
Within days, the informal labor-organizing effort at Penn State had been extinguished by Big Ten and university officials. Yet in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Warren asserted that he is open to discussing unionization and other aspects of one of the hottest emerging areas in college sports: athletes’ rights.
“Everything on the table we have to talk about,” Warren said of athlete-centric issues including independent medical care, revenue sharing or possibly becoming employees. He added that if athletes told him they were interested in unionizing, he would bring in experts to educate him and his charges.
“I want to know all of the ramifications: What does it mean to scholarships? What does it mean for NIL, [name, image and likeness]? What does it mean for cost of attendance payments? What does it mean for medical care?”
College athletics is in a period of dramatic change. Conferences are consolidating in a bid to chase billion-dollar television contracts, while athletes are pushing to have a greater say—and greater piece of athletics’ ever-growing financial pie—after winning the legal right to monetize their name, image and likeness last summer. The Big Ten is at the forefront of those changes, as Warren orchestrated the addition of Southern California and UCLA in June to make the league a coast-to-coast counterweight to the expanding Southeastern Conference."
Probably a pay wall.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-ten-athlete-unionization-11659969748?mod=hp_featst_pos4
Then a Penn State strength and conditioning coach walked into the room and accidentally interrupted the meeting. News of the labor agitation went straight up the food chain at Penn State and all the way to the desk of Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren. Discussion of unionizing athletes has long been a hard “no” for nearly everyone in college sports administration.
Within days, the informal labor-organizing effort at Penn State had been extinguished by Big Ten and university officials. Yet in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Warren asserted that he is open to discussing unionization and other aspects of one of the hottest emerging areas in college sports: athletes’ rights.
“Everything on the table we have to talk about,” Warren said of athlete-centric issues including independent medical care, revenue sharing or possibly becoming employees. He added that if athletes told him they were interested in unionizing, he would bring in experts to educate him and his charges.
“I want to know all of the ramifications: What does it mean to scholarships? What does it mean for NIL, [name, image and likeness]? What does it mean for cost of attendance payments? What does it mean for medical care?”
College athletics is in a period of dramatic change. Conferences are consolidating in a bid to chase billion-dollar television contracts, while athletes are pushing to have a greater say—and greater piece of athletics’ ever-growing financial pie—after winning the legal right to monetize their name, image and likeness last summer. The Big Ten is at the forefront of those changes, as Warren orchestrated the addition of Southern California and UCLA in June to make the league a coast-to-coast counterweight to the expanding Southeastern Conference."
Probably a pay wall.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-ten-athlete-unionization-11659969748?mod=hp_featst_pos4
