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

[olshin]

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.

 

[Purple Pile Driver]

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.

 

[FanatiCat]

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.

 

[olshin]

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)

 

[1830sherman]

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).

 

[NUCat320]

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.

Kain Colter Facing Several Domestic Violence Charges, Described As "Indigent" In Court Filings | Defector

Over the last few years, as the uprising Colter helped spark got more and more attention, he all but disappeared from public view. Yet public records paint an ugly picture of what Colter, now 29 years old, has been up to.

defector.com

 

[PurpleWhiteBoy]

This is that report. Gutting. I wonder if he’s suffered due to lack of medical access.

Kain Colter Facing Several Domestic Violence Charges, Described As "Indigent" In Court Filings | Defector

Over the last few years, as the uprising Colter helped spark got more and more attention, he all but disappeared from public view. Yet public records paint an ugly picture of what Colter, now 29 years old, has been up to.

defector.com

thats not good.
makes me wonder if CTE class action lawsuits are coming eventually.

 

[corbi296]

thats not good.
makes me wonder if CTE class action lawsuits are coming eventually.

Pretty much guaranteed. The problem right now is CTE can’t be officially diagnosed until post mortem and for the players that have played football since they were little kids the other problem is it’s hard to prove exactly when the player developed CTE. Is it the pee wee football team’s liability? The High School’s liability? Or the College’s liability?

 

[FanatiCat]

thats not good.
makes me wonder if CTE class action lawsuits are coming eventually.

It’s understandable to implicate CTE whenever a former FB player struggles with mental illness but correlation does not imply causation. There are unfortunately many young people whose mental illness first manifests in the early 20s.

There is an equally sad athlete story with NU connection - Debi Thomas, Olympic medalist skater, who later graduated from NU medical school (I was in an elevator with her once 😄) but then developed bipolar disorder and at one point was living in a trailer. But now it looks like she’s back skating again which is great to see!