On another level, it's about powerful multimillion-dollar corporations (however non-profit) with seven-figure CEO compensation packages and sky-high broadcast revenue making a gesture towards sharing the wealth. But at heart – as last week's move by the NCAA to grant limited autonomy to its wealthier and more powerful division schools – it's really about a multi-tiered sports monopoly fighting to maintain its power and influence in an evolving arena.
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Proposed NCAA Reform: A Progressive Labor Movement or Settling for Crumbs?
It's an ongoing story with many layers. On one level, it's about college athletes fighting to form their own union (at least at one university) to secure better benefits and eliminate what they see as the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) long-standing exploitation of them as unpaid amateurs: in other words, a labor struggle as old as the NCAA and the history of organized labor in America itself. So reports Bloomberg.
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