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By Colin Hogan, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

Unlike some of my peers in college athletics, I know the exact dollar value of my time as a varsity athlete. It is zero dollars and zero cents. But, also unlike some of my peers, that amount is not dictated by the NCAA. Even if the NCAA\u2019s concept of amateurism never existed, I would have no hope of earning money from my sport. And I\u2019m OK with that.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not OK with kids getting robbed while they put themselves at risk of injury, the NCAA making incentives against<\/em> a college education, or institutional greed bankrupting younger generations of their role models. And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening today.<\/p>\n

The argument that the NCAA and colleges\/universities across the country frequently make is that students receive enough; they receive an education that catapults them into the rest of their lives, equipped with the lessons of hard work. They are students, and not employees.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I like that idea. I like that idea so much that I used swimming to help get me into a great college so I could focus on my education and have a great future. I\u2019ve made the biggest decisions of my life adhering to the NCAA\u2019s idea of using academics and athletics to enhance each other, and I never hoped for a dime more than the value of my college experience or what it might afford me later in life.<\/p>\n

But the collegiate student-athlete experience is broad– broader than the scope of the NCAA\u2019s archaic policies that limit who can find value and what kind of value they might find.<\/p>\n

In contemplating this issue, it\u2019s useful to revisit the case that unfolded when the Northwestern football program attempted to unionize in late 2014. Everyone from university administrators and NCAA representatives to the National Labor Relations Board tried to draw a line in the sand about what constituted a student-athlete.<\/p>\n

In the infancy of this storyline, the oft-forgotten detail is that the Chicago arm of the NLRB ruled in favor of unionization despite outcries from the university and the NCAA. Donald Remy<\/strong>, the chief legal officer at the NCAA, released a statement voicing his disappointment after the initial decision. \u201cWe want student-athletes\u201499 percent of whom will never make it to the professional leagues\u2014focused on what matters most\u2014finding success in the classroom, on the field and in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The underlying concern here is that paying student-athletes for their roles on the field could poison the integrity of the amateur contest and undermine their full role as student-athlete. But the Northwestern football players weren\u2019t demanding that they get paid. According to Sarah Ganim<\/strong> of CNN, their efforts toward unionization were intended to bargain for \u201cbetter medical coverage, concussion testing, [guaranteed] four-year scholarships and the possibility of being paid.\u201d The last of these, a mere possibility with no proposed structure, soured the pot for the NCAA.<\/p>\n

The case ended up being appealed and losing by unanimous vote at the highest board of the NLRB. So why did the Chicago NLRB rule in favor of the athletes? In part because it deemed that they were suffering hardship and receiving value incommensurate to their time and efforts.<\/p>\n

Despite Donald Remy and the NCAA\u2019s insistence that they care about the \u201c99 percent\u201d of students that compete and are supposedly not spoiled enough to hope for compensation, Northwestern players, led by former QB Kain Colter<\/strong>, demonstrated that sports often infringe upon academics, not enhance them. Colter testified that he was forced to switch majors from his preferred course of study in pre-med.<\/p>\n

And as Ganim points out, the NCAA knows that sports and school aren\u2019t mutually beneficial. A 2012 internal survey by the NCAA found that 15 percent of baseball, basketball and football players would have selected a different major had they not been athletes.<\/p>\n

NCAA athletes are not supposed to spend more than 20 hours each week in their sport. Colter recorded instances where he spent up to 50 hours each week in football activities. In that 2012 study, athletes reported an average of 40 hours every week scheduled toward sports. As a swimmer, these figures don\u2019t seem outrageous.<\/p>\n

Hold on, you might say, why is this relevant now? Besides impacting student-athletes and potential student-athletes now and as their health concerns develop into the future, this case is old.<\/p>\n

Ben Strauss<\/strong> of the New York Times reported on the appellate decision:<\/p>\n

The board did not rule directly on the central question in the case\u2014whether the players\u2026 are university employees. Instead, it found that the novelty of the petition and its potentially wide-ranging impacts on college sports would not have promoted \u201cstability in labor relation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, as Ramogi Huma<\/strong>, president of the College Athletes Players Association, put it, \u201cThe door is still open.\u201d<\/p>\n

And recent developments in university-to-student employment relations make the Northwestern case relevant again. Mark Oppenheimer<\/strong>\u2019s article \u201cGraduate Students, The Laborers of Academia<\/a>\u201d appeared on the New Yorker\u2019s website to discusses a recent case where the NLRB ruled that graduate student teaching assistants, as university employees, are allowed to unionize.<\/p>\n

Graduate students faced many of the same stigmas as student-athletes when presenting their case; seen as privileged, whiny and lucky to have the opportunities afforded to them, grad-students were long denied their right to unionize in private institutions based more on feeling than definition of the law.<\/p>\n

This recent decision should ignite Colter, Huma, football players at Northwestern and collegiate student-athletes across the country to revisit their plea to unionize. Because, really, they weren\u2019t told that they were wrong. They were told that the status quo shouldn\u2019t be upset.<\/p>\n

Yet college sports continue to rake in money, new research pours out about the long-term health risks of sports and the NCAA continues to position itself \u2018on the side of the athlete\u2019 while its knows both the time sacrifices of sport and the reality that it likely won\u2019t lead to employment as a professional athlete.<\/p>\n

I think it is time to shake up the status quo.<\/p>\n

All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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