[Beeg_Dawg]

Can't see how this ends any way but badly for athletes.  Scholarships would become taxable? The law of unintended consequences throws a long shadow. College sports is my last refuge, after giving up on baseball, the NBA and mostly on the NFL. 

I feel like with NIL, transfer portal and now this, the SEC and Big10 become farm leagues for the NFL.  Everyone else starts scrapping athletic programs and college sports goes the way of the covered wagon and steam locomotives.

Agree. This will end College Sports.  Club teams…… Because if they are classified as employees, the next legal play will be class action wage and hour lawsuits.  Then it’s done.  So, “be careful what you wish for.”

The PAGA lawyers are already lining up. No way CA athletic programs will be able to contend with all the details of employment law in the state, and therefore lawsuits will abound.

The NLRB action only impacts private schools. 

Should a ruling in favor of classifying college athletes as employees occur, I foresee a rapid move towards unionization, thus leading to collective bargaining. This would address any wage and hour concerns.

1) Not sure what to make of the claim student athletes are employees of USC, PAC12 and NCAA.  Can an employee perform the same work at the same time for three employers? 
2) How is it possible to exclude public schools in this?  Is there some additional magic that makes you an employee of a private school but not  public schools?

Imagine the overtime pay for traveling to all those east coast games.....:)

[Beeg_Dawg]

Can't see how this ends any way but badly for athletes.  Scholarships would become taxable? The law of unintended consequences throws a long shadow. College sports is my last refuge, after giving up on baseball, the NBA and mostly on the NFL. 

I feel like with NIL, transfer portal and now this, the SEC and Big10 become farm leagues for the NFL.  Everyone else starts scrapping athletic programs and college sports goes the way of the covered wagon and steam locomotives.

Agree. This will end College Sports.  Club teams…… Because if they are classified as employees, the next legal play will be class action wage and hour lawsuits.  Then it’s done.  So, “be careful what you wish for.”

The PAGA lawyers are already lining up. No way CA athletic programs will be able to contend with all the details of employment law in the state, and therefore lawsuits will abound.

The NLRB action only impacts private schools. 

Should a ruling in favor of classifying college athletes as employees occur, I foresee a rapid move towards unionization, thus leading to collective bargaining. This would address any wage and hour concerns.

1) Not sure what to make of the claim student athletes are employees of USC, PAC12 and NCAA.  Can an employee perform the same work at the same time for three employers? 
2) How is it possible to exclude public schools in this?  Is there some additional magic that makes you an employee of a private school but not  public schools?

Imagine the overtime pay for traveling to all those east coast games.....:)