According to the bullshit artist Pat Fitzgerald, the football coach at Northwestern University, players on his team do not want to form a union after he had a talk in private with each and every one of them some time last week. He wanted to make it clear to the press and public that there is no demand for a players union where the players can be as fairly paid as this son of a pig. Pat Fitzgerald was a former white player for Northwestern whoa was drafted in the NFL but the fact is most players on Northwestern's roster will never again the positions Mr Fitzscumass was able to rise eventually being e overpaid head coach of pathetic Northwestern football. I guess we are suppose to think that ere is no union drive on the football team despite Northwestern athletes winning a ruling allowing a union to represent the labor and work of athletes at this elite institution. The players of course will say they don't want third party representation unless they want to be alienated to the bench and have their collegiate football playing opportunities diminished by this union busting head coach. I know in secret most players want some money and if Mr Fitzgerald should have solidarity with his athletes and be paid the same amount of nothingness as the players all over mine making division I football slave away to their head coaches and athletic departments. Of course Pat will do anything to fight the embarrassment of unions in the college game because he is the only bastard on the field making a fucking living
Anyway Rick Telander wrote a great article despite this bullying and intimidation as a temporary setback there is no going back in the unionization effort of college athletes on the campuses around this nation. The days where only middle age jackasses profit handsomely from the ugly college athletics institutions is coming to an end and why it took this long is any one's guess. Perhaps it has something to do that years ago a college degree actually meant something Nd was a ticket to prosperity but thanks to the neoliberalism free market republican disaster leaderships, a degree is nothing but accumulated debt and a ticket to a McJob for many student alleges these days. They will be lucky to get a job at NikeTown in a mall while their head coaches live it large in life in their McMansions.
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