re: Vandy lawyers up

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Private schools are considered easier targets, at least through the NLRB, which rules on private employers. Public universities are governed by state law

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So the real takeaway is that if the union is successful, Vandy, Northwestern, Stanford, USC, etc drop out of the NCAA and we get fewer top division schools, pushing us closer to the day of having 4 big conferences.

Every time I see one of these threads, I am surprised at the lack of mention of Title IX, or the lack of understanding of it even when it is mentioned.

First of all, as it pertains to Title IX, the fact that Vandy is private is irrelevant. They receive federally funded student loans. They cannot be exempt from Title IX.

Second, so what if the Vandy football team unionizes? The fact that they may have formed a union will in no way allow them to reap a benefit that is inequitable under Title IX. For any dollar stipend received, any insurance benefit received, any disability benefit received by Vandy football players, female athletes will receive exactly the same. Title IX is the law of the land, and while the Obama administration may think that they can selectively enforce Obamacare, there is no way in hell that Title IX will ever be set aside just because some underling at the NLRB says that football players can unionize.

Oh, by the way, since Vandy would never drop basketball or baseball, make that a total of about 112 females that would have to get those benefits.

Go on the website of the College Athletes Players Association and you will quickly see that none of these guys are women. Ramogi Huma may be a smart guy, but he's clueless if he believes this:

"Huma also co-authored groundbreaking studies that made national headlines such as “The $6 Billion Heist: Robbing College Athletes Under the Guise of Amateurism”. The study estimates that the fair market value of FBS football and men’s basketball players is approximately $137,000 and $289,000 respectively; and that the NCAA will deny these athletes approximately $6 billion of their fair market value between 2011-15."

The NCAA may deny athletes compensation under the guise of amateurism, but he's a moron if he thinks that the U.S. Department of Education would ever sit still and let college football players and male college basketball players get paid their "market value".

I agree -- the chancellors should just eliminate football. Firestone closed several plants years ago when the union was voted in -- I know of one in Albany GA and Bowling Green KY.
I would rather watch DIII with no scholarships than unionized ball.
No good can come of it.

Keep in mind that if any of this should come to pass, it'll take at least 5-10 years for any of this to come to pass as it will inevitably be held up in court. The current players petitioning will be long gone by then.

My son is ten and he wants a cut of the 2$ they charge at his little league games. He says he's taking it to court. What's the difference?

In the old days troublemakers like Colter would just wind up finding untimely deaths due to complications of union organizing. If only this were 1900...

I also think it is only a matter of time before the women athletes sue because the boys are getting paid.

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Vandy lawyers up
Wouldn't.this help with title 9? No longer a scholarship to be accounted for ,for the womans sport to coattails off of. No law saying you have to hire an equal amount of men vs woman.

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You don't understand the law and the individual department that enforces it. These guys can call themselves employees until they're blue in the face. It doesn't matter. The U.S. Department of Education...the federal department that enforces Title IX...says that they're students. Period. End of discussion. Doesn't matter what some guy at the NLRB says. The U.S. Department of Labor doesn't give a dime to universities. The Department of Education gives mammoth piles of it. And they say that if the universities want to keep getting those massive amounts of cash, male and female students...including students that play sports...have to have the same opportunities and benefits.

Some guy at the NLRB has probably never even heard of Title IX. Has no clue what it says...because it isn't relevant to his job and his area of enforcement. He deals with labor issues. Title IX is an education issue...and yeah, as long as these football players are enrolled in classes, that makes them subject to Title IX.

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Vanderbilt athletics has consulted with its lawyers about the dynamics of a union

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So the Yakuza and Triads will now run Vandy Football?