Student Athlete Employment And Collective Bargaining

Summary

• - Can you define student-athlete employment relative to independent contractors? 
• - Can you define collective bargaining? 
• - What do you think will be the most essential components of collective bargaining?
• - Let's say we collectively bargain tomorrow; does that absolve the NCAA of things in the past? 
• - Can we go a little deeper into the structure that would be appropriate? What structure would be optimal if we transitioned into collective bargaining? 
• - Does the landscape stay the same for Olympic sports? Does it change at all given the fact that they might not be part of the collective bargaining? 
• - How will state "right to work" laws come into play in terms of collective bargaining? 
• - In a revenue-sharing model, would it matter how the money is dispersed? Would that be a work-around for international student-athletes to remain in compliance with their visas? 
• - How does classifying collegiate athletes as professionals versus amateurs affect their employee status? 
• - Talk about the ripple effects of student-athletes becoming employees. What do we do when and if revenue sharing comes to fruition, how does it impact Title IX? 
• - With student-athletes being paid directly from universities, how will that affect how they interact with collectives or how collectives operate? 
• - How will the dynamic between an athlete and agent change? 
• - Pushing something to the collective involves a level of coordination. Are we just going to end up back in the same place? 
• - It seems like it would be easier to break off revenue-generating sports away from the business of higher education.
• - Parting thoughts and words of wisdom for administrators.