It's worth noting that collective bargaining in the NFL benefits the owners b/c it allows them to set a salary cap that prevents them from outbidding one another to infinity.
NIL has no salary cap. Any program can drive itself into the ground by overpaying players - driving up market prices with the players being the net beneficiaries.
If I'm a college football player, why would I ever unionize? We so often think that unionization would be a net positive for players and net negative for programs, but maybe we have it backward?
NIL has no salary cap. Any program can drive itself into the ground by overpaying players - driving up market prices with the players being the net beneficiaries.
If I'm a college football player, why would I ever unionize? We so often think that unionization would be a net positive for players and net negative for programs, but maybe we have it backward?
