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Message: [QUOTE="retro44, post: 1035547, member: 587"] The president emeritus publicly said that a vote for the union could mean the end of Division I sports at Northwestern. A former quarterback visited the team to encourage players to vote no. Coach Pat Fitzgerald, a former football star who is revered on campus, has framed a vote for the union as a personal betrayal. [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/sports/ncaafootball/at-northwestern-a-blitz-to-defeat-an-effort-to-unionize.html?hpw&rref=sports&_r=0#story-continues-6'][U]Continue reading the main story[/U][/URL] [SIZE=5][B] Related Coverage [/B][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/sports/ncaafootball/a-primer-on-northwestern-players-quest-to-unionize.html'][SIZE=5][B]A Primer on Northwestern Players’ Quest to UnionizeAPRIL 1, 2014 [/B][/SIZE][/URL] [*][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/sports/ncaafootball/national-labor-relations-board-rules-northwestern-players-are-employees-and-can-unionize.html'][IMG]http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/03/27/sports/Y-NORTHWESTERN/Y-NORTHWESTERN-thumbStandard.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=5][B]College Players Granted Right to Form UnionMARCH 26, 2014 [/B][/SIZE][/URL] [/LIST] “Understand that by voting to have a union, you would be transferring your trust from those you know — me, your coaches and the administrators here — to what you don’t know — a third party who may or may not have the team’s best interests in mind,” Fitzgerald wrote to the team in an email The personal betrayal quote by Fitzgerald is what might get him in trouble, plus the fact they all got new ipods right after the NLRB ruling. Timing could be everything on stuff like this. I am against them forming this union as it really doesn't make sense as they are not real employees, but student athletes. [/QUOTE]

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