Tennessee AD Danny White: Collective bargaining is ‘only solution’ for college sports amid NIL issues
Amid all the discussion about the future of college sports in the wake of the pending landmark House v. NCAA settlement, the lone resolution that no one in authority wants to touch is collective bargaining. Or, in simpler terms, designating collegiate student-athletes as employees, which would allow them to unionize and then establish a collective bargaining agreement with the NCAA and/or another joint body like the recently proposed “College Sports Commission.“
Well, all except Tennessee athletic director Danny White. He became one of the first Power Four ADs to formally jump on that particular third rail.
During a brief video discussion with University of Tennessee chancellor Donde Plowman that she posted to her personal X/Twitter account, White didn’t mince words about how college sports can address its issues in the day and age of NIL and the NCAA Transfer Portal. He says it’s time to make employees of student-athletes and then work out a CBA with them.
“It’s a real issue, we could go on and on about what we need,” White said. “But I’ll say it, we’ve got a camera on us (but) I don’t really care at this point: collective bargaining is the only solution.”
Leave a Reply