Sponsor Note. If you've got a business to incorporate or help run or sell or divide or recombine or create and elaborate series of shell corp… okay maybe not that last one uh what
Right! Richard Hoeg.
He will do all of those things for you except probably the last one. We do not need to send the authorities on a wild goose chase only to find out that the final shell corporation is named "You've Wasted A Lot Of Time LLC." They have important things they should be doing instead. Come on, man.
They're employees, for now. The National Labor Relations Board has been weirdly relevant to college football over the last few years, first shooting down an attempt for players to unionize and now throwing the doors wide open:
College football players and some other athletes in revenue-producing sports at private universities are employees of their schools, the National Labor Relations Board's top lawyer said in a memo Wednesday that would allow those players to unionize and otherwise negotiate over their working conditions. … Abruzzo notes that the act and NLRB law "support the conclusion that certain players at academic institutions are statutory employees, who have the right to act collectively to improve their terms and conditions of employment."
The NLRB tends to change radically depending on which party is in control of the executive branch so anyone fixin' to have a union should get on that horse as fast as possible and try to get something that can't just be swept away in the event the NLRB gets turned over and decides to reverse itself yet again.
As a bonus this lawyer bombed the most gag-inducing term in college sports:
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo also threatened action against schools, conferences and the NCAA if they continue to use the term "student-athlete," saying it was created to obscure the employment relationship with college athletes and discourage them from pursuing their rights
I like this person.
This opens the door to seismic changes that will cause administrators to wail about the destruction of college sports while the general public says "Roll Tide" with little to no awareness of what the financial particulars are.
[After THE JUMP: good news and bad news from NFL Draft projections]
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