Maxwell Minute: Update on the Dartmouth Union Ruling
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00:00 Sportscaster Rick Harrell with your Maxwell Minute brought to you by the Maxwell Football Club.
00:05 Well, hail to Dartmouth, I guess. Ivy League is not a revenue-producing program like any of the
00:12 Ivies, clearly, but a revenue-producing, exciting, precedent-generating program.
00:18 As the National Labor Relations Board says, the basketball team could unionize for purposes of
00:25 unions, playing conditions, training, etc. They are unions, they are professional athletes.
00:32 This ruling came on the heels of Northwestern University's players trying it on the football
00:37 side years ago, but the important distinction, what happened in the meantime? NIL,
00:42 unanimous Supreme Court decision, pay the players, and now the first one of these,
00:47 and many more potentially, although NIL may have taken the wind out of the sails here,
00:52 because many of the athletes are getting enough money and justifying
00:56 their commercial exploits regardless of unionizing.