Originally Posted by Brad S.
are entertainers. If the entertainment business of college sport can't survive the free market as is, its business proprietors are free to establish the conditions under which it can, subject to applicable labor law. And who are they to tell athletes (I hesitate to use employee, although that's what they really are) they can't earn outside of the entertainment workplace.
|
Athletes play a team sport and are co-dependent on the success of their teamates. That is why agents for players is wrong in a team sport. Players should not be paid as "entertainers" as they are not in the same market.
