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?
That's a great point, Tina. As for what's stopping the players now, I can only speak to what I know. At least for the major four sports, the owners are all business billionaires who use the leagues to control their power. Currently, I think it would be an insane amount of lift and blackballing from the owners for anyone who speaks out against them. They've retaliated against vocal players before (Kaepernick comes to mind) and I'm sure the players know any form of speaking out would see them cut and thrown off the team.
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?
That's a great point, Tina. As for what's stopping the players now, I can only speak to what I know. At least for the major four sports, the owners are all business billionaires who use the leagues to control their power. Currently, I think it would be an insane amount of lift and blackballing from the owners for anyone who speaks out against them. They've retaliated against vocal players before (Kaepernick comes to mind) and I'm sure the players know any form of speaking out would see them cut and thrown off the team.
yeah, mutiny has to be "one for all and all for one" or they can pick them off "one by one." lol