I think if there were dedicated football and basketball unions, then you wouldn't need any other unions because the other sports would just be cut. That's the whole crux of this problem, that the vast majority of college athletes are in sports that are pure loss only underwriten by revenues from football and basketball.
To then employ those athletes in money losing sports would probably mean much more expense. Wages, healthcare, workplace liability. Could there be a specific wrestler union that agrees a CBA that lessens some of those expenses for the school? I suppose it's possible but I think the school would rather just cut the sport than work all that out.
And then of course those schools will at the same time need to spend much more on their money making sports like football and basketball to stay competitive.
And oh yeah, we're probably at peak cable and the big money deals that fund a large chunk of these schools' ADs are probably not going to be getting much bigger if at all in the future.
Where else do you cut then in the university budget to keep your AD afloat?
To then employ those athletes in money losing sports would probably mean much more expense. Wages, healthcare, workplace liability. Could there be a specific wrestler union that agrees a CBA that lessens some of those expenses for the school? I suppose it's possible but I think the school would rather just cut the sport than work all that out.
And then of course those schools will at the same time need to spend much more on their money making sports like football and basketball to stay competitive.
And oh yeah, we're probably at peak cable and the big money deals that fund a large chunk of these schools' ADs are probably not going to be getting much bigger if at all in the future.
Where else do you cut then in the university budget to keep your AD afloat?