re: Nick Saban pushes for players to 'unionize,' has 'no problem' with athletes being paid

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The stupidity coming out of Saban’s mouth, and people agreeing with him, is simply astounding.

Student-Athletes are NOT employees of the university. They are Students! How do you unionize when there are no employees to form a union?????

NIL will, ultimately, be the ruination of college football. All the supposed adults in the room, Saban, Sankey, etc, have no clue on how to manage it. The fact they want congress involved shows how utterly ignorant and confused everyone is on this topic.

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I'm saying that the athletes should be employees of their university like how I was an employee of my university when going to school. I had skills and they paid me to do IT work.

The concept of athletic amateurism flies in the face of realities that exist in academia for every other student besides athletes.