Notre Dame vs the NLRB

From ESPN:

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- An unfair labor complaint was filed Thursday against the University of Notre Dame for classifying college athletes as "student-athletes." The complaint was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by a California-based group calling itself the College Basketball Players Association. It said Notre Dame is engaging in unfair labor practices as defined by the National Labor Relations Act. The complaint is similar to one filed against University of Southern California last May by the NLRB's Los Angeles office alleging players on USC's football and men's and women's basketball teams are employees and not "student-athletes" within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. Notre Dame cited its Statement for Principles for Intercollegiate Athletics in responding to a request for comment on the complaint, saying athletics is "an integrated participant in and contributor to the University's education mission ... ." "Clearly, Notre Dame's athletic programs are part of -- not separate from -- our broader educational mission," the school said. "We will vigorously defend our approach to ensuring that being a 'student-athlete" describes precisely the educational and developmental experience our students receive at Notre Dame."

For all of you that thought that NIL, Conference jumping, and the Transfer Portal couldn't get any worse, you were wrong.

This is a money grab for union bosses, the IRS, and states that have a state income tax. There will be infighting among any number of unions, such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU, Teamsters, and public employee unions across the US seeking to cash-in on college sports.

As an employee rather than a student athlete your athletic scholarship will be taxable. If you're an athlete in a no income tax state, you will be taxed on an away game in a state income tax state, just like professional athletes are taxed.

State schools will have to navigate public employee retirement plans. The Olympic sports will disappear and women's sports with the exception of basketball will disappear.

Conferences and Notre Dame might have to renegotiate their TV contracts in the event that there is a strike. No play, no pay.

Notre Dame and USC will not be the only schools that will face NLRB action. Dartmouth was the first and that is fitting as Ivy League schools are very good at screwing up the parade even though they are not very good on the field.

Everyone knows about Murphy's Law. Murphy was an optimist.