Northwestern University football players can unionize, federal agency says

SloMotion · 03-30-2014, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by OldMaid

The development of the process of this will be very bad for the majority of these college athletes.

They do not understand, know, or want to know and most have no one to tell them or understand it all for them like parents about their current situtations vs. what will happen to them if this becomes the new standard.

Exactly. With unionization/employee status, they're scholarships & other perks they enjoy for playing college football will undoubtedly be counted as income and subject to tax, IMO ... just as with any other employee, unionized or not.

Someone should have told them, "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" ... something like only 1% of these guys make it to the NFL and Northwestern certainly ain't no football-factory,

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The whole thing is just absurd if you ask me.

03-30-2014, 06:08 AM	#6
SloMotion 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 6,776 Blog Entries: 15	Re: Northwestern University football players can unionize, federal agency says Originally Posted by OldMaid The development of the process of this will be very bad for the majority of these college athletes. They do not understand, know, or want to know and most have no one to tell them or understand it all for them like parents about their current situtations vs. what will happen to them if this becomes the new standard. Exactly. With unionization/employee status, they're scholarships & other perks they enjoy for playing college football will undoubtedly be counted as income and subject to tax, IMO ... just as with any other employee, unionized or not. Someone should have told them, "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" ... something like only 1% of these guys make it to the NFL and Northwestern certainly ain't no football-factory, . The whole thing is just absurd if you ask me.