SEC’s Greg Sankey says ‘there’s an opportunity here’ for college sports; let’s hope he takes it
New York TimesDESTIN, Fla. — There are two Greg Sankeys. Sankey went on: “As people write about collective bargaining in college sports versus professional sports, that played out over 30, 40, 50 years, with lockouts, antitrust lawsuits. “You assume — you assume — that some kind of bargaining mechanism would resolve that,” Sankey said. “So what I think not’s been made clear is the comparative realities with historic professional sports bargaining and where we are.” Again, notice what Sankey was not saying: No, we will not collectively bargain, or no, we should not collectively bargain. And for a while Sankey was one of the holdouts, appearing before Congress a few years ago and saying “I’m not there yet” on NIL — as in players appearing in commercials and such — which a few years later is now granted as a simple, basic right.
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