Excellent article, Joe. The way colleges are structured it makes sense to work with the established school unions to negotiate. Professional sports is different. I know it's simplistic but I could never understand why professional ball teams don't ban together and create their own player-owned team and get rid of their owners altogether. Without the talent, the owners have zero commodity to sell (even stadium doors would close without teams to play in them). If the players took financial control, they could delegate the salaries of their management and support staff. What's stopping them from doing this?
Excellent article, Joe. The way colleges are structured it makes sense to work with the established school unions to negotiate. Professional sports is different. I know it's simplistic but I could never understand why professional ball teams don't ban together and create their own player-owned team and get rid of their owners altogether. Without the talent, the owners have zero commodity to sell (even stadium doors would close without teams to play in them). If the players took financial control, they could delegate the salaries of their management and support staff. What's stopping them from doing this?