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Thinking of NIL, the changing landscape of college football ... and Kain Colter

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I mean ...... how much different would things look right now in college sports if the NCAA had just said sure, you guys can form a union and lets hammer out a collective bargained agreement making you all school employees.

I can't help thinking about MLB Free Agency ... and how the owners basically played themselves into it by refusing to give the players even one inch in more ridiculous times. NCAA must not have read or understood that history.

Instead Colter was shunned .... and the NCAA was too stupid to realize he might have been - from their perspective - the savior.

Anyway ... just my .02 ... off to read about college free agency ... i mean the portal and collectives.
 
I mean ...... how much different would things look right now in college sports if the NCAA had just said sure, you guys can form a union and lets hammer out a collective bargained agreement making you all school employees.

I can't help thinking about MLB Free Agency ... and how the owners basically played themselves into it by refusing to give the players even one inch in more ridiculous times. NCAA must not have read or understood that history.

Instead Colter was shunned .... and the NCAA was too stupid to realize he might have been - from their perspective - the savior.

Anyway ... just my .02 ... off to read about college free agency ... i mean the portal and collectives.
Kain is a modern day Curt Flood.
 
I admit at the time I thought it was way out there what Colter was trying to do. In hindsight it was really visionary and probably would have been a way more regulated and fair compensation system.
Agreed. In reality, most of what Colter and crew was proposing is exactly what most people in retrospect want (not the $ figures, but a fair and regulated system of employment)
 
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Speaking of KC, wondering whatever happened to him. There was that sad report 3 1/2 years ago. Have not seen anything since (not that I've searched that hard).
 
Speaking of KC, wondering whatever happened to him. There was that sad report 3 1/2 years ago. Have not seen anything since (not that I've searched that hard).
This is that report. Gutting. I wonder if he’s suffered due to lack of medical access.

 
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