College athletes unionizing?

[jrhagen]

I have seen some good points stated.
I like the insurance part. The schools are collecting a lot of money in tuition and sports revenue. Each school should have a group plan that covers every student attending, death to ACA.
Pay for Play or Tuition, pick one. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
4 year requirement. If you want a full-boat scholarship, you must commit to 4 years. Scouting, training, school costs a lot of money. The player must attend and play for the full 4 years. No more one and done. If they do leave early, they must have a non-compete.
If they get hurt, that would be covered by Disability insurance, paid for by the student athlete. If the athlete wants to be paid for play and can't play, it is their individual responsibility to plan for the potential of injury. Kinda like me at my job.

[mikeyg36]

This is why they shouldn't be paid a cent
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/co...icle-1.1737861

[ChrisBlair]

Until a college student enrolls in a school's Athletic Program and studies the sport and does nothing but train in that sport and is tested and graded on that sport as competently as any other student is when a professor examines his work, and is going to that school to get a degree in that sport, then absolutely not.

Until that time, they are going to that school to study the course they are enrolled in, which is not sports according to the school.

Don't like it? Then go straight to pro sports from highschool. Oh, that's really hard? Yeah, so is having any other career without a degree that helps you succeed professionally. Pro sports is hard and for a reason. College assists with the transition immensely, presents the college athlete to scouts and publicity to help build that pro career. It's bullshit that the college student that is going to turn pro is not getting huge assistance from the school. And the ones that can't be good enough to turn pro after college? This is just a cry to get a piece of the pie they are never going to see otherwise. There's many statements and stories about college athletes that turn in three or four barely literate sentences, get a passing grade on that final paper, and they are good to go. This idea is utter crap. These same guys are sometimes idolized and looked up to because they make great money,never mind the fact they can't speak intelligently about anything and have the money skills of a drunken sailor on payday. Our idols should not be functional illiterates.