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re: Nick Saban pushes for players to 'unionize,' has 'no problem' with athletes being paid
Posted on 7/3/23 at 12:55 pm to bamameister
Posted on 7/3/23 at 12:55 pm to bamameister
Free markets suck shite for sports competition. That’s why none of the major sports leagues operate like unfettered free market enterprises.
A regulatory system that the ownership agrees to operate under is what keeps their products interesting and profitable.
Accordingly, when such regulatory instruments come into being, the athletes need to collectivize to avoid getting crushed by the system seeking to minimize their compensation to maximize profit for the ownership.
College athletics is doing this in a weird one-degree removed way to avoid calling the athletes employees of the university but essentially it is still the ownership putting players on payroll. The same people that foot the bills for the AD are standing up these collective. Let’s stop acting like this is anything more than legal sophistry.
A regulatory system that the ownership agrees to operate under is what keeps their products interesting and profitable.
Accordingly, when such regulatory instruments come into being, the athletes need to collectivize to avoid getting crushed by the system seeking to minimize their compensation to maximize profit for the ownership.
College athletics is doing this in a weird one-degree removed way to avoid calling the athletes employees of the university but essentially it is still the ownership putting players on payroll. The same people that foot the bills for the AD are standing up these collective. Let’s stop acting like this is anything more than legal sophistry.
This post was edited on 7/3/23 at 12:58 pm
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