This week, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to form a union, and U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is not at all happy about it.
During an interview on Fox News’ “American Reports,” Tommy Tuberville – a former Division I football coach – claimed that the move to unionize was going to “kill college sports.”
“They’re going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg—all these athletes are—because it pays for everything,” Tuberville said according to On3. “Scholarships are paid — men and women — but there’s a lot of people that don’t bring in money to universities. But what’s going to happen here is you’re going to see groups of people that’s going to try to unionize and then it’s going to spread across the country. We’ve been fighting it here. Joe Manchin and I did a NIL bill that was bipartisan, but it kept unionization out, but the Democrats wanted it in.
“That’s the reason we haven’t gotten it to the floor. But this will absolutely kill college sports. You know, the last time I looked, they’re not employees. These students are student-athletes. And if you want the federal government involved and ruin something, you try to make the student-athletes employees. Soon the federal government will get involved, unions will get involved, and it will be a total disaster.”
Tuberville certainly did not hold back on his controversial opinion.
[On3]
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