Dallas Meeting

[MadNY3]

Yahoo! Sports on a Conference realignment meeting in Dallas yesterday.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Will Debbie be there?

 

[BKCuse]

A secret meeting on the future of college sports you say?
Well I trust Syracuse was at the table represented by our esteemed chancell—- uh … I mean our Athletic Direct—- um…

 

[MadNY3]

A secret meeting on the future of college sports you say?
Well I trust Syracuse was at the table represented by our esteemed chancell—- uh … I mean our Athletic Direct—- um…

Two BOT members were there.

 

[BKCuse]

Two BOT members were there.

Is that true or am I missing the joke?

 

[Nahson]

I don’t understand why this is so complicated. Pool TV rev, disperse it equally among FBS schools. Have the players draft a collective bargaining agreement. Then, legitimize the NCAA, with federal backing. Give schools the option of opting out. Any school that opts out will receive zero federal funding moving forward. I’m sure Ohio State wouldn’t miss there $797 million in federal funding they received next year.

 

[djorange1989]

A secret meeting on the future of college sports you say?
Well I trust Syracuse was at the table represented by our esteemed chancell—- uh … I mean our Athletic Direct—- um…

Lyke was there, she negotiated a move for SU to the MAC starting next year.. this is satire. I think

 

[JarHeadJim]

Will Debbie be there?

 

[Briancuse]

Lyke was there, she negotiated a move for SU to the MAC starting next year.. this is satire. I think

Mac if we're lucky. I could see us in the nec with her leadership skills

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I don’t understand why this is so complicated. Pool TV rev, disperse it equally among FBS schools. Have the players draft a collective bargaining agreement. Then, legitimize the NCAA, with federal backing. Give schools the option of opting out. Any school that opts out will receive zero federal funding moving forward. I’m sure Ohio State wouldn’t miss there $797 million in federal funding they received next year.

By all means. Tie higher education funding to sports.

 

[Nahson]

By all means. Tie higher education funding to sports.

Lmao what a dumb response.

 

[MadNY3]

Is that true or am I missing the joke?

Didn’t make that up.

 

[Cusefan95]

I don’t understand why this is so complicated. Pool TV rev, disperse it equally among FBS schools. Have the players draft a collective bargaining agreement. Then, legitimize the NCAA, with federal backing. Give schools the option of opting out. Any school that opts out will receive zero federal funding moving forward. I’m sure Ohio State wouldn’t miss there $797 million in federal funding they received next year.

The collective bargaining part is incredibly complicated. If it includes both public and private schools, it’d run into a boatload of individual state labor law issues. And would there be one collectively bargained contract for all sports? One for every sport (or clusters of sports with football on its own)?

Every other part of your suggestion just adds complexity. This situation is by definition complicated.

 

[texascpa]

The collective bargaining part is incredibly complicated. If it includes both public and private schools, it’d run into a boatload of individual state labor law issues. And would there be one collectively bargained contract for all sports? One for every sport (or clusters of sports with football on its own)?

Every other part of your suggestion just adds complexity. This situation is by definition complicated.

If the Fed legitimizes a collectively bargained agreement through legislation (much like the NFL and MLB) then that supersedes any state labor laws, for the most part.

 

[Cusefan95]

If the Fed legitimizes a collectively bargained agreement through legislation (much like the NFL and MLB) then that supersedes any state labor laws, for the most part.

“If we can get the federal government to go through the incredibly complex and difficult process of crafting and passing legislation to allow collective bargaining within college athletics, from that point this gets really easy. And it’s easy since the difficult and complex task of getting all the stakeholders broadly aligned and in agreement on what the collective bargaining process entails will have been completed though the development of the legislation”.

Agreed. It doesn’t really matter if the difficult and complex issues I noted get resolved through legislation or some other process - they still need to be resolved. Since having multiple individual states carve out exceptions would be more difficult than a federal law - I’d expect a federal law is going to be the ultimate process. It’s still a difficult and complex one.

 

[Hoo's That]

The Federal labor law that the Northwestern players successfully sued the school under specifically exempts state governments from being forced to recognize unions or participate in collective bargaining. They can do it voluntarily, but can't be required to participate. State universities are considered (obviously) as part of state governments and many would argue in court their athletic departments are just like their English, chem, or any academic department, a creature of the school. Most state schools give a portion of the AD's and coaches' salaries so the president can fire them. Nick Saban received $100K (of his $7 million salary) from the Alabama state budget that way. The money-making argument won't hold up since since most schools control the patent rights of their profs and get money from licensing them.