Northwestern players seeking Union representation

[N.AL-Tider]

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[KoKoPuf]

Smoke breaks after each 7 minutes. No overtime games without an 8 hour break. RB limited to 15 carries.; QB's to 20 pass attempts; etc etc etc. The end of football as we know it.

[ricky023]

Third world country taking over. We will be out of football as a game before long. The world is changing day by day so much more in America. RTR!

[pmull]

Only in Chicago would anyone think unions would be good for college football.

[cbbama99]

So long, college football. It was nice while it lasted. Now I guess this will become minor league football. I wonder what big league team Alabama will be farm team for? 

[ALTideUp]

Smoke breaks after each 7 minutes. No overtime games without an 8 hour break. RB limited to 15 carries.; QB's to 20 pass attempts; etc etc etc. The end of football as we know it.

Social change happens. It either happens reasonably and gradually, or the forces of the status quo hold out so long that pressure builds, so that when change occurs it causes an earth quake. We should have offered more to the athletes long ago, like the enhanced stipends, something like a trust fund that would pay them after their time in college was up, whatever. Instead, those who make perverse amounts of money from the system disingenuously pined about the ideals of amateur collegiate athletics, or anything else they could think of, to maintain the status quo. And now it's come to the point where players feel they need a union to be taken seriously. So let's not be too surprised if it's time for the earth quake. Perhaps this fall's incident at Grambling was the first rumble.

[pmull]

So long, college football. It was nice while it lasted. Now I guess this will become minor league football. I wonder what big league team Alabama will be farm team for? 

The scabs! We will be union holdouts.

[SUPERCOACH]

If they go on strike... put me in coach, I'm ready to play. 

[Jamos]

It will never happen.

[2Stater]

It will never happen.

I don't know, J, I hear SC's pretty good. 

[ricky023]

  , you all make good points, but do they get a yearly raise? RTR!

[SUPERCOACH]

I would pay them to let me on the field. 

[XBAMA]

I would pay them to let me on the field. 

and we would pay to see it   

[ricky023]

Our SC team, Scoring Champion. RTR!

[Marshal Dillon]

Smoke breaks after each 7 minutes. No overtime games without an 8 hour break. RB limited to 15 carries.; QB's to 20 pass attempts; etc etc etc. The end of football as we know it.

Social change happens. It either happens reasonably and gradually, or the forces of the status quo hold out so long that pressure builds, so that when change occurs it causes an earth quake. We should have offered more to the athletes long ago, like the enhanced stipends, something like a trust fund that would pay them after their time in college was up, whatever. Instead, those who make perverse amounts of money from the system disingenuously pined about the ideals of amateur collegiate athletics, or anything else they could think of, to maintain the status quo. And now it's come to the point where players feel they need a union to be taken seriously. So let's not be too surprised if it's time for the earth quake. Perhaps this fall's incident at Grambling was the first rumble.

Yeah, I guess that $60,000 a year education those "poor" Northwestern players are getting is just chicken feed. I spent 7 years in the Army to use a GI Bill. The tuition, rent, food, medical care, & books a player gets at Alabama is $25,000 a year. How much more can we give them? Most folks are getting loans, working 2 part-time jobs, & more to pay for college.



 

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