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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4658092, member: 153"] I see it as last days. Given recent court rulings, the players will be paid by the schools. At that point, the teams will be pros. One good comparison for all of this is the grad student union strikes at Michigan. For all my time at universities, faculty have been supportive of grad students earning more. The rule of thumb used to be that more grad students meant cheaper labor to teach classes (I got $6k a year at Penn State 30 years ago, $15k at SUNY 25 years ago). The rate at Michigan for grad students is $40k and upward now. They teach a 1/1 load. In order to fund these, schools have cut grad student positions by 2/3 or more (i.e. a 15 person class is now a 5 person class). I'm not sure what the UM grad students want because this is going to be the absolute best teaching life is ever going to be for them. Schools are hiring "Clinical Teaching Faculty"(non tenure track) for $60-65k a year to teach 4/4 loads. You can see the huge savings. They are still hiring adjuncts to teach for $3-4k per class. So, I'm saying that support for grad degrees has reached an economic breaking point. If they push for more beyond this, there will be existential questions as to whether the system will even continue. [/QUOTE]