The Myth of the Student athlete

[ricepig]

I don't see the full blown bidding war happening.  All of this might open up a true professional minor league, but no one would care.  I sense that this will lead to a bit of watering down of the college game, but the folks who love their schools will still go to games, even if the super stars no longer play.  Look at Arkansas baseball; we really aren't good, but attendance is wonderful.  Folks like to watch their college (mens) sports.  WPS, with or without 5 stars.

Baseball team is ranked 24th in a poll this week, that would probably warrant better than "aren't good."

[Inhogswetrust]

Who was the greedy doof at the NCAA that thought it was a good idea to market video games with the likeness of actual players appearing in the game?

Seems like they would have known it was a lawsuit waiting to happen.

That didn't make sense to me either.

[HogSophist]

They could take their talents to the job market and get fair value there. Most college athletes seem to be physically fit and would be well suited to manual labor. Or they could attend class and utilize the degree they receive to get a good paying job outside of sports. Where is all this outrage for the workers of Wal-Mart, McDonald's, etc. It is pretty much standard in this country that the workers are paid exponentially less than those at the upper levels of management.

Can they? Or are they precluded from it?

[Dumb ole famrboy]

The current ruling is for private schools only. Athletes at state schools have fight a completely separate set of laws.

I disagree - my take on the ruling is the FLRB classified all FBS college football players as employees but couldn't grant the right to unionize to players attending state schools due to conflicts with state laws. In other words they classified football players attending state institutions as State Employees and the right for state employees to unionized is reserved to the individual state.