Are we heading toward some college athletes being deemed employees? RossDellenger on a significant step taken Tuesday in that direction
. “We get to a place where we talk about professional athletes and it blows up the whole model. Let’s take it to the natural conclusion. Talking about professional athletes, then we have a draft. You’re telling a kid where to go to college. If they are an employee, do I get the right to fire them?
“Every day the status quo seems to be more unsustainable,” Feldman says. “Some significant change is likely to happen in the near future. There is consensus: Athletes should be given more. The question: How do we do that while protecting the foundation of college sports?” “What the NCPA is doing is trying to make it more fair and give dignity and respect to these athletes,” says U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas . “It won’t fix the problem as a whole, but like pro sports … they have minimums. If you’re an athlete, you’re at least going to make X amount. Maybe the star on the team can negotiate a multi-million dollar contract. But we will raise the floor [amount].”
However, according to NCAA president Mark Emmert, not all athletes agree. In writing its new constitution, the NCAA found strong pushback among athlete groups in abolishing the term “student-athlete,” Emmert said. Athletes were “downright insulted” over the proposed change, he added. Some administrators believe the solution lies in the nation’s capital, where a Congressional bill could lay a legal path for schools to provide athletes collective bargaining rights and even revenue-sharing provisions. Others suggest that, maybe, higher education and college athletics are headed for divorce.
Deeming college athletes as employees would have wide ranging impacts on both the athletes themselves and their universities. Athletes would be rudely welcomed to the world of federal taxation. And they may even be at risk of termination by their new employer—the school.
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