New York Magazine: Can College Sports Survive Collective Bargaining? (features Shabazz)

[LeftCoastHusky]

Apologies if this has already been posted. From the current issue of New York Magazine...

Can College Sports Survive Collective Bargaining?
On a recent Monday night in Texas, the entire sports world stared at one man, Shabazz Napier, waiting to speak...

 

[B1GEast]

thanks for posting


It is a travesty that Shabazz Napier goes to bed hungry the night before he makes millions upon millions for a bunch of balding white men. (The NCAA took the food thing so seriously it is now considering a major rule change allowing schools to offer more than three meals a day, something that, astoundingly, they hadn’t been allowed to do before.) This is a system that must be changed. The question is whether it can be without killing it entirely. College athletics very well might be unfixable; you might have to burn down the whole village. After sitting through Jerry Jones’s Final Four, I’ll confess: As much as I love all college sports … I’m ready to light the match.