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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 5258093, member: 10435"] There is really no incentive for the players to unionize now. They have the best of both worlds. Now also, the schools can use operating revenue to pay their athletes. The players can make whatever they want on the outside, which will never be legally curtailed, and they are only signing scholarship type agreements which as I understand it, are only for a year or are easily dissolved by the player just leaving. If there is a major scandal that erupts, there could be governmental regulation or if the players have a need to unionize at a given school, there can be a local CBA. I only see this getting worse however. There were 14 SEC schools in the men's tourney this year. 20 years ago there were 4 and 30 years ago there were 3. Not a coincidence. I remember listening to the head of the NCAA Committee several years back discussing the portal and NIL and he was trying to spin this that it would somehow help the mid majors. Usual doublespeak that turned out to be completely wrong and showed a complete lack of understanding of the effects of the changes. If you are a mid major star after one or two years, you are usually gone to the land of a power conference and football dollars in very short shrift. [/QUOTE]