What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Understand About College Sports
1 year, 5 months ago

What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Understand About College Sports

Slate  

Congress loves to hold hearings on the issue of how America’s universities might, in the future, pay their athletes. They always go exactly Sen. Ted Cruz feels there’s a 60 percent chance that Congress will soon pass a bill that governs how college athlete compensation works. But the mechanics of an NLRB ruling would not be to instantly turn all college athletes into employees and budding union organizers, as Jennifer Abruzzo, the board’s very pro-player general counsel, has explained to me. Which is why it’s so important that, as powerful bodies consider whether athletes are employees, they do so with more knowledge of college sports than Cruz has, or pretends to have. Just as an octogenarian who asked Mark Zuckerberg how Facebook made money without users paying to use it was not a great candidate to effectively regulate Big Tech, a senator who doesn’t understand that college athletes can already get fired in everything but name is not positioned to make good policy about their working structure.

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LA Times  

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