If they separate, what's the point.
interesting the ruling was specific to basketball, so in that case if Dartmouth loses money, then like any business, they'd close the doors lol, after 3 years of losses.
Does it extrapolate to minor sports?
there's no way Long Beach athletics could survive as a separate entity with an employee model. And I suspect for all but about 30-40 D1 Universities, they couldn't really survive that way as well.
Have to wonder if a college world of 40-50 universities pumped up by media will still maintain interest long-term.
Carrying 350 student employees at $50k a year, staff of 70 @ an average cost of $120k a year. All of that as a separate entity would just magnify costs. That alone is a like a $25 million budget, impossible for any Big West school. The base budget will be too much. Plus walk-ons have to be considered employees, that's nuts. It'll go out of business.
And can current athletes sue for back pay, lol?
questions, questions, lol. what a mess
It's not sustainable. Football & Title IX will have ended killing college athletics.
All club teams. It basically makes athletics a professional enterprise, stupid at it's core for any University.
Hope it all crashes down.
Maybe not, who knows. I just think the end effect will be a more elite class of student athletes, not the current spreading of schollies among 350 D1 universities.
According to Dartmouth, they are losing money even for their basketball program. I think the athletic departments for the schools will need to be separate from the university administratively just so they (the university) maintain their non-profit tax status.
wonder if Ivy league not having any schollies has any effect on the ruling.
So are D2 and D3 athletes employees. I mean, the costs of carrying employees for sports is ridiculous.
Even some P5s would have difficulty with this.
Might as well only have club teams. You are gonna pay cross- country and tennis players as employees, lol, where there is zero revenue to begin with?
Congrats to the Athletes, be careful what you wish for is all I can say.
Why bother sponsoring more than 4-5 teams.
National Labor Relations Board ruled that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the university and therefore eligible to unionize. While this ruling only applies to Dartmouth, I'm sure it won't be long before this applies to all D1 schools. Not sure where this is all headed, but I just know it's not going to be good for the Niners.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nlrb-rules-that-dartmouth-mens-basketball-players-are-employees-in-decision-that-challenges-ncaas-amateurism-model-004752811.html
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