Public Forum - March 2024 - Student Athletes as Employees
Debate is hard work. Unlike college athletes, you can't get paid for it, but we can at least lighten the load.
TIME STAMPS
Definitions and Framing 5:10
PRO Arguments 23:48
CON Arguments 51:17
Final Thoughts 1:12:00
SOURCES CITED
Michael McCann, Professor New Hampshire School of Law (2023), College Athletes as Employees: Answering 25 Key Questions: https://www.sportico.com/feature/coll...
Robert McCormick and Amy McCormick, Michigan State University College of Law (2006), The Myth of the Student-Athlete: The College Athlete as Employee: https://history.msu.edu/hst329/files/...
Molly Harry, Diverse Education (2020), Abolish the Term “Student-Athlete”: https://www.diverseeducation.com/spor...
Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022), What is an employee? The answer depends on the Federal law: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/01/...
Richard Johnson, Sports Illustrated (2023), Explaining Johnson v. NCAA: What’s at Stake: https://www.si.com/college/2023/02/15...
Tim Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2022), NIL Timeline: How We Got Here and What’s Next: https://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-bu...
PRO:
Tommy Beer, Forbes (2020), NCAA Athletes Could Make $2 Million A Year If Paid Equitably, Study Suggests: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybee...
Craig Garthwaite and others, National Bureau of Economic Research (2020), Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing In Modern College Sports: https://www.nber.org/system/files/wor...
Kurt Badenhausen, Yahoo Finance (2023), NBA Players Score as Shared Revenue Grows by $250M in New CBA: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nba-pl...
NCSA College Recruiting, This Study Proves Just How Much Time College Athletes Spend on Their Sport:
https://www.ncsasports.org/blog/study...
Andrew Zimbalist, PBS (2023), Analysis: Who is winning in the high-revenue world of college sports? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/...
Brittany Renee Mayes and Emily Giambalvo, The Washington Post (D2018), Does Sports Glory Create a Spike in College Applications?: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...
Bill Carter, Sports Business Journal (2023), Seven Data Points That Will Tell The Story of NIL in 2023: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com...
Kaitlin Balaasaygun, CNBC (2022), In the college sports pay era, female athletes are emerging as big economic winners: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/15/that-...
Justia, Collective Bargaining Agreements in Sports Leagues & Their Legal Scope:
https://www.justia.com/sports-law/col...
Alex Kirshner, Global Sport Matters (March 9, 2022), Why a College Athlete Union Seems Inevitable - and How it Could Work:
https://globalsportmatters.com/busine...
National Labor Relations Board (2024), Trustees of Dartmouth College v. SEIU Local 560: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/01-RC-325633
Michael A. Bongiovanni, Fordham University (Fall 2020), Compensation for the Players: An Analysis of the Compensation for an NCAA Athlete:
https://research.library.fordham.edu/...
Grand Canyon University (July 26, 2023), Should College Athletes Be Paid?
https://www.gcu.edu/blog/business-man...
Robert Binion and Mark Wood, Carnegie Mellen (Fall 2022), The Racial Imbalance in College Football Coaching:
https://www.stat.cmu.edu/cmsac/confer...
NCAA Research (2016), Percentage Black Head Coaches and Student-Athletes at NCAA Institutions (Men’s Sports with Highest % Black Head Coaches)
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Ted Tatos and Hal Singer, The Antitrust Bulletin (2021), Antitrust Anachronism: The Interracial Wealth Transfer in Collegiate Athletics Under the Consumer Welfare Standard: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
Ted Tatos and Hal Singer, Global Sport Matters (2021), College Sports Amateurism Costs Black Athletes Billions: https://globalsportmatters.com/opinio...
CON Sources in comments due to length.