The coming alternative to college sports and unionization of players

Guy Baldwin
   College sports is big time business and some news the other day made me both ill and feel good about the future of higher learning. Fist of all some jackasses wanted to bring another Illinois school into the big ten. I forgot this lawmaker and will have to search it later but his thinking as because Illinois loses so many kids that want a big ten sports experience so they wind up going out of state because getting to the U of Illinois and Northwestern is ultra difficult. This shows that in this law makers mind and others that sports are more more important than education for some of these fools in the state of Illinois. These universities benefit so much from this illogical thinking and make fortunes in many ways off the back and free labor of big time sports athletes. A universities mission from founding was to educate its pupils and not entertain them with beer and circus. Sports marketing and departments are creating an Illuminate perception what is necessary for a college education has got out of whack in this sick sports obsessed nation and perhaps nothing clearly shows this insanity and injustice that these kids making millions for others through their fifty hour practice weeks.

    Thus thou good news is around the horizon as Northwestern players have fought to the courts for their right to form a union. Tired of  years of their hard work being exploited by elite institutions and the money directed to elites running it the players of this school and others were left with no other alternative but the courts. What is needed is a choice where available minor league alternative funded by corporations that fund these same sports. Most would skip the one of two years required in the case of basketball and bring their talents to smaller cities looking for sports entertainment. Colleges should be stripped of their teams and taken over by the local governments that SE colleges have been using facilities and other tax payer expenses to operate their eight football games and dozens of basketball games. The players would be payed and choose to have a chance to actually ear a paycheck for their time instead of giving it for free so some college sports bureaucracy   can make a living.