Matt Jones
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So now whether it passes or not, there's now a lot of people suggesting maybe it won't.
Whether it passes or not, though, the question of whether they're employees, they're leaving for a time in the future.
I mean, nobody has to do anything that they don't agree to.
In my opinion, if I could snap my fingers through and create a system that I think would govern college sports the best, you just need to make these people employees and collectively bargain.
If you collectively bargain, then you can put whatever rules you want on them, right?
And then once they do that, like, you can have rules.
But the problem is they don't want to make them an employee and they want to put all this stuff on them.
And courts just are going to say no unless you create legislation specifically for them.
And we're seeing how hard that is to happen.
It already feels like pro sports, so just make it pro sports.
I mean, a lot of them are making more money than some professionals.
I don't understand why we have to live in this myth that it's not.