Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger said the issue with athlete employment is that there are “plenty of D1 athletic programs that get their funding from state dollars and in university support in student fees,” so schools could be “using student fees and state funding to pay athletes whose sports generate zero revenue.” He said the move to be “anti-employment” stems from serval factors. Dellenger: “Number one, they believe that the majority of athletes don't want to be employees. Number two, they believe that the majority of NCAA athletic programs will not, cannot or will not -- probably more cannot -- pay athletes salaries. And if they have to, they will choose not to, and they'll close the programs." A third reason is because employment “would change a lot of what they just did” in the antitrust settlements. Dellenger said employment “would permit athletes to unionize,” and he does not “believe college leaders want unionized employees as athletes” (“College Football Enquirer,” Yahoo Sports, 6/12).
