Alejandro Cooley

Should college athletes be classified as employees with salaries and benefits?

My daughter plays Division III softball. No TV money, no NIL deals, just a sport she loves and a degree she is earning. Classifying athletes as employees turns every roster spot into a labor decision: schools will carry fewer players, cut walk-ons, and treat the third-string catcher as a cost center. The classroom relationship matters too. Professors already navigate awkward dynamics with athletes; making them university employees with HR files deepens the divide between athlete-workers and regular students. NIL rights since 2021 already let stars earn real money, with some quarterbacks signing deals worth millions, as covered by the [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/). Let the market pay the marketable through NIL and revenue sharing. Do not reclassify the entire system and crush the 98 percent who just want to compete and graduate.

Honest question: if we capped wealth at, say, 999 million, what stops the 999 millionaires from wielding the exact same power? The line is arbitrary and everyone knows it.

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The mandate era was ugly and I am not going to defend any of it. But 'the government might abuse health care' is an argument against bad government, not against universal coverage. Plenty of countries run universal systems through governments that change every few years and people still get their surgeries. The distrust here is American-specific.

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As a teacher, the week after each change is lost instructional time. Tired kids do not learn, and no lesson plan survives a room full of jet-lagged eight-year-olds. End the switching and give us the week back.

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