Scott Rich

You've put in your blood, sweat, and tears screaming at that game.

You've put your own money in to help support the team.

that you have a sense of ownership and investment in a college team that you never will in a professional team, at least in the United States.

I'm sure you would attest to the fact that overseas in the world of European football, that's not entirely the case.

But we can save that.

We can save that element of the college game that makes it so great if we accept reality, if we accept the fact

that big-time college athletes are employees of the school and need to be collectively bargained with.

There's a solution.

It's an easy solution.

It's the keep it simple, stupid solution.

Someone just has to, again, have the cojones to say, it's about time we embrace where we are.

It's got to be lawyers, plural.

My last thought on the subject is this.

There are issues in society, in lines of work, et cetera, that

An individual can solve.

Then an individual can take a stand and put themselves out on a limb.

And that can be enough to stem the tide.

There are also issues that require collective action, that if you go out on that limb by yourself, all you're doing is actually shooting yourself in the foot because one isn't enough.

If everyone else is playing by one set of rules and you're playing by a different set of rules, you're really just hurting yourself.

There are a lot of situations like that in academic research.