🏈 College football players mark gear with "All Players United" to protest NCAA

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Some Georgia Tech players wore "APU" on their wristbands and towels to support NCAA reform organized by the National College Players Association.



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[mhardiman]

Am I reading this right, or because I got bored with it I missed something. The players are protesting the NCAA about "How they handle Concussions;" what the piss else do they want the NCAA to do about concussions, because I don't know what else they could do to the game and still call it "Tackle Football." There's about a thousand other things I could think of to protest against the NCAA about then that.

 

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NCAA protest: How the NCPA became college football players' leading voice

Two major questions for athletes' rights movement: Would players ever strike and/or unionize?



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[TerryP]

Am I reading this right, or because I got bored with it I missed something. The players are protesting the NCAA about "How they handle Concussions;" what the piss else do they want the NCAA to do about concussions, because I don't know what else they could do to the game and still call it "Tackle Football." There's about a thousand other things I could think of to protest against the NCAA about then that.

I began to suspect this was another chapter in the "Academia vs Athletics" argument we've seen for years when we were in the midst of so much attention being paid to Manziel this off-season.

Now, I read this and I'm inclined to believe that even more.

If you tend to pay attention to who someone has as a "bedfellow," seeing this should make you wonder, "and what do they have in common?!?"

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>NCPA's biggest fundraisers are NFL autograph signings organized by steelworkers union. <a href="http://t.co/yFHL6WohoK">http://t.co/yFHL6WohoK</a></p>&mdash; Jon Solomon (@jonsol) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonsol/statuses/382479252580356096">September 24, 2013</a></blockquote>
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