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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5694980, member: 173"]
While collective bargaining is a possible solution - it’s either ignorant or dishonest to say it can be “easily solved”.  I see often that the big objection from schools is classifying athletes as employees, but there’s a ton of other issues here:
- Creating a collective bargaining agreement which includes both public and private employees in the same agreement would be monumentally challenging.
- Figuring out what constitutes a “collective” of schools is a hurdle.  Is it a conference?  All FBS schools?  Public schools as one, private as another?  Multiple different collective bargaining agreements would be the “easiest” path forward.  It would also be disastrous.  (As a side note, I think that makes it the most likely path).
- After that, what is the “collective” of athletes”?  Is this done sport by sport?  All in one?  Some other groupings?
-  What impacts does Title IX have on this whole process?

I can see why schools would prefer to just hope for a miracle and an anti-trust exemption.  This process is going to be very complex and challenging - and is guaranteed to have a lot of unhappy stakeholders at the end no matter what.  I don’t think media (or some random idiot on X for that matter) spinning a narrative that there is an “easy solution” is prudent or justifiable.
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