08-08-2014, 03:04 PM
The 5 divisions will have the power to recruit the best athlete (students) in the country if they can pay players. They'll make even more profit from it, and they just want their money.
Unfortunately, it'll give precedence to treating the athletes as employees, not students. There'll be no legal argument for why they can't unionize and demand salary without education. At that point, you'll have a separate league that isn't affiliated with studies. Then the players will want to break away from the colleges, and then the colleges will cry about how they started college sports and students need their education, blah blah blah.
It's all bullshit. It's the same way the Olympics stopped requiring participants be amateur athletes. Great, so we get to see Olympic Hockey with the same aholes that play in the NHL, except now they're broken up half for Canada and half for the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, it'll give precedence to treating the athletes as employees, not students. There'll be no legal argument for why they can't unionize and demand salary without education. At that point, you'll have a separate league that isn't affiliated with studies. Then the players will want to break away from the colleges, and then the colleges will cry about how they started college sports and students need their education, blah blah blah.
It's all bullshit. It's the same way the Olympics stopped requiring participants be amateur athletes. Great, so we get to see Olympic Hockey with the same aholes that play in the NHL, except now they're broken up half for Canada and half for the rest of the world.