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I was a columnist at two newspapers for over ten years and while I had hoped my writing days were behind me, I’m told original content is marketing gold.  Therefore here goes,…

      I feel as if college sports is making the same mistake all over again.  The minute the NCAA lost the O’Bannon case in 2014, everyone who did not have their head in the sand knew that college athletes were going to get paid down the road. 

Well now here we are down the road and we have the wild, wild, west.  The NCAA trying to install their version of a salary cap (20-22 million a year per school for all their athletes) and the athletes continuing to file civil cases and winning, asserting their rights to unlimited amounts of money.  Since the NCAA has not won a major court case in the last 15 years, why and how do they think that this artificial constraint will take hold?

      The solution is simple but no one associated with running college athletics wants it.  Make the athletes employees!

     With the way things are today, athletes can transfer virtually whenever they want.  They can demand whatever the market will pay them and do so in a yearly basis.  The boosters are currently the ones paying the tab which is unlimited with no signs of slowing down.  College athletes have a staggering amount of power.  More-so than any group of professional athletes.  Why?  Because they are not employees. 

     However, once you make them employees what can the schools do?  They can fire them.  They can cut their pay.  They can institute a salary cap.  They can regain the upper hand and keep costs in check.  Yes, that officially makes the college athlete, professionals. 

What do you think those playing revenue generation sports are now?  They are pros with us pretending they are something they are not. 

     If I were running the NCAA, I would change the system effective July 1st 2025.  College athletes who are compensated with more than a full scholarship are now employees.  Everything is now to be negotiated between us and the athletes.  The athletes would be forced to unionize and bargain in good faith.  A cost structure would be set up so that all schools would now what they are today and going forward.  Oh yeah, and the fans/boosters would not be the ones flipping the bill any longer.  The schools would be.  How would they do it?  By using the network TV money they receive. 

     Since major college sports is nothing more than a TV show, it’s only fair that things run this way. 

    The same way they do in professional sports.

     Because that’s what major college athletics is.  The powers that be are in denial and simply too ashamed to admit it.