I see no reason why a player cannot benefit from the revenues generated using their name and number. If the school is going to sell their jersey, why shouldn’t they participate in the profits?
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday overturned a historic ruling that gave Northwestern University football players the go-ahead to form the nation's first college athletes' union, saying the prospect of union and non-union teams could throw off the competitive balance in college football.
Northwestern University on Thursday urged the National Labor Relations Board to overturn a regional ruling that would allow its scholarship football players to unionize, holding up the football program as exemplifying the university's integration of athletics and education.
An interesting ruling was handed down yesterday by a federal agency that will allow football players at Northwestern University to have the ability to create the first ever college athletes union.