Yahoo Sports Claims Cancelling Football is about Union Busting

They're unionizing because their failing leaders are cancelling their season. As they should.

The autonomous movements in those conferences scared leadership. They just used the liability of coronavirus as an excuse. And guised as player safety.

It's a well-known tactic in the corporate world but I really don't think the threat of player organization motivated the b10. It might've motivated the PAC12 but there's something else going on in the B1G and probably has a lot to do with the crowds and various social distancing laws/regulations being enforced in the states colleges are located in. If schools can't bring in crowds then football is a huge loss that a lot of ADs can't just absorb even amongst the p5.

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They're unionizing because their failing leaders are cancelling their season. As they should.

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I think you have the tail wagging the dog; as in have it backwards.

Honestly there isn't much that has changed since a month ago that should precipitate cancelation other than unionization talk.

Problem is if they lose all revenue this season they'll bee in an even worse bargaining position next season. I know they want to maintain the facade of amateurish, but that cat's already out of the bag. Canceling just isn't the best option.

From the player's perspective as well. Their power before a reduced revenue season when colleges have a very good excuse to cancel is significantly weaker than it would be in the period after that season with the threat of ailing programs losing full revenue in 2021.

1. Player's should agree to a liability waiver.

2. College should agree to cover any long term health costs associated with playing this season and extend 1 season of eligibility for those who opt out.

3. Unionization talk should be tabled for a season.

Yeah this is going to result in a "Premier League" of college football.

Most of the SEC, Clemson, Notre Dame, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, maybe Southern Cal, Oregon, Nebraska, etc.

Basically all the schools willing to spend the money to compete.

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One step closer to a D league forming. College football may still exist but would be a shell of its former self.

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if it meant getting some of the corruption out of college athletics and getting back to more pure amateurism, I'd be for it.

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College football as we know it is dying.

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And for the same reason American society is. Self-inflicted wounds.

Had it too good but that wasn’t enough.

There may be some truth to this claims, there may not be. Either way, those writers in no way make a compelling argument supporting their case. It's all opinions supported by little evidence beyond conjecture.

ETA: As for my opinion, I would argue that cancellations are almost entirely based on perceived liability, not the actual health concerns themselves.

SO Monday when the players all came out wanting to play the media and fans took heart that it was proof that the players union thing was simply a few malcontents. What no one discussed was the things the players were asking for...among them no loss of eligibility whether they played this year or not and, most importantly, recognition of a players representative. That little tidbit was never mentioned except in passing but it is the exact same thing the players union malcontents are on about. This is going to happen. The players are done financing Lacrosse with their labor....and they should be. CFB players are predominantly black men....when the realization that their labor is being used to support women's swim teams, almost all white women, settles into the mind of the public the players union is a done deal. There is simply no way major sponsors are going to be tied at the hip to a system which requires black men to play in a violent sport to financially support women's equestrian teams....especially when coupled with the fact that the vast majority of those black men spend 3-4 years working very hard to finance the gymnastics team only to find themselves with no future in the NFL, no degree and basically unemployable and with a body ravaged from playing football at a high level. They are gonna be paid, either by CFB or by a NFL developmental league...the market is there, the capital is there and the labor is there...its only a matter of time....