![]() They can, and should, figure it out on their own. The people running the schools cashed the checks. Neither Congress nor the NFL nor the NBA should let them off the hook. Essentially, Swarbrick, Jenkins and their ilk would like someone else to fix the mess they themselves made. Swarbrick and Jenkins want Congress to declare that athletes aren’t employees even though making athletes employees and then collectively bargaining with them would actually solve many of the problems that vex them so. So the market, as it always does, has devised another way to provide that compensation. The market wants to pay athletes for their value as athletes, and the schools - through the NCAA - forbid this. Swarbrick and Jenkins are correct that this did result in a sham system, but they conveniently leave out the reason. Instead of trying to find a way to pay revenue-sport athletes their market value as athletes, school administrators complain about the name, image and likeness system foisted upon them by state legislatures who grew tired of seeing schools break the Sherman Act in an effort to keep anyone from providing athletes anything beyond tuition, room and board. So it would be super cool if all you guys solved our problems without us having to do any actual work. We don’t want to solve the issues we’ve created. If you don’t want to read all that, here’s a short translation… ![]() and its Players’ Union, in accord with the 2018 Commission on College Basketball, use the upcoming contract negotiations to eliminate the “one and done” rule and allow 18-year-olds to proceed directly to the league. to establish a minor league alternative for young players. To ensure that players arrive at college only after making an informed choice - and a real commitment to learning - we urge the N.F.L. Both policies push talented young players to enroll in college regardless of whether they have any interest in the educational experience it offers. offers no alternative to intercollegiate football until a player has been out of high school for at least three years. age requirement for draft eligibility forces most of the highly talented players to attend one year of college. Though baseball and hockey allow players to go pro right after high school, the N.B.A. ![]() Professional athletics must play a role, too. the ability to enact and enforce rules for fair recruiting and compensation. They’d also like the NBA to abolish its age limit.Ĭongress, too, must act to resolve conflicting state regulations, clarify that our athletes are students, not employees, and give the N.C.A.A. Jenkins and Swarbrick also command the NFL to create its own minor league instead of using the perfectly good - and incredibly popular - one they’ve created. government to codify a system that will allow schools and their executives and coaches to enjoy all the benefits of running a couple of major American sports with none of the pesky annoyances like paying market value for the talent or negotiating with the workforce. ![]() On Thursday, The New York Times ( The Athletic’s parent company) published an op-ed from Notre Dame president John Jenkins and athletic director Jack Swarbrick that cloaked itself in nostalgia while nakedly asking the U.S. They have chosen over decades to build a multibillion-dollar business, and they still think they can appeal to the government and to an increasingly cynical public to hold on to a system that even they admit is broken. Plus, we know he really liked writing checks to Ezekiel Elliott.īut that level of self-awareness doesn’t exist for the people who run major college sports. He’d be pilloried in every corner of the sports, government and financial spaces. Despite Jones’ gift for hyperbole, even he wouldn’t dream of doing this. ![]()
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