What does that NC2A reference mean or is getting at? I know who Tark is and the back & forths UNLV had with the NCAA.
i do think this is likely to end up back in the courts. However, I’m not sure the result is predetermined. With congress unlikely to pass an equivalent bill of this regulation, i could see this making it to the Supreme Court and them deciding in the NCAA’s favor. That is one amongst many possibilities though.
I don’t think the NCAA wants a union to deal with; and i question how effective, as well its legitimacy perceptually, a union would be that is initiated by the powers that be (that’s a bar).
Putting that big elephant to the corner of the room, i see an even larger problem at play. One union, or many unions? The answer will inevitably be the latter given the many sports and athletes with competing or contrasting interests under the collegiate athletic purview.
Then, afterwards, how do these institutions hold up? Will be they be conference specific? Will graduated players be allowed to maintain leadership positions? How would, if possible, non-conference transfers and incoming HS recruits have their interests properly addressed? How are leaders picked and meetings organized and dialogue deliberated on with so many needs and so much youth? These are just some of the beginning questions I’d (and they themselves) wonder about.
The power of unions and antitrust law are some of my favorite happenings of American history. Still, in this scenario, I find myself skeptical that a union can even be formed, yet alone endured. I was keeping my eye on the Dartmouth hoopers however they dropped their effort to unionize after Trump won. Maybe things pickup after ‘28 however we don’t really know how the universities’ administrative side would’ve responded to that.
