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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4468397, member: 12088"] I love how the article lays out the legal steps the NCAA and the schools can take to resist this action. But I can't for the life of me fathom why they'd want to resist. Why not simply enter into negotiations with the advocacy group, assist in the creation of a union for players, and be done with it? Can they seriously argue that it wouldn't be in the best interest of the players, i.e. their students? I'm not sure there can be any other basis for argument. I get that there's a lot of money involved, and getting any institutions to cede power is always an uphill slog. But that's business thinking, and these schools are [B]nominally[/B] non-profits... and the NCAA is effectively ancillary to educational institutions. If they resist this effort, it seems to me, they are admitting (if only tacitly) that they are not really educational institutions. And, yes, I get that not all educational entities are non-profits -- that's an argument for another day -- but are there any of these in the NCAA? [/QUOTE]