To a Senate Committee hearing looking at college ath lecks and athlete compensation. Live coverage on cspan 3. But in the institutions of Higher Education themselves, and then before that in 1929 a report from the carnegie education was being neglected and commercialism reigned. The ncaa had been formed to protect the safety of players and deal with corruption. Now, my second experience forming an opinion about the subject were talking about today came from my service of that Night Commission when i was president of the university of tennessee. Our Commission Recommendation was that University President s take charge, assert themselves, take charge of College Athletics, to take charge of the huge amount of Television Money it attracted and restore academic and financial integrity to the programs. As a result over the next several years academic standards became more stringent, Financial Support for student athletes increased, college presence asserted more responsibility for financial
College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
Knight when the networks decided they needed a midweek game. Now it depends on what conference youre in, how many days of school you missed. You can keep defending it. I would work on changing it. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, for this hearing. I thank the gentleman. Im going to thank the witnesses. A lot of expertise, real knowledge, appreciate everything you had to offer. Quite a diversity and experiences and positions here. Somebody who was a toplevel College Athlete and then went on to play in the nfl has very strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently, mr. Eilers, that weve got problems out there as mr. Miller, again very passionately, pointed out that needed to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the actions of a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board who suggested that these athletes are employees and, therefore, could, if they chose, vote to join a union. And so we explored some of the possible down
Trauma risks. They are asking to prevent players from being stuck paying sports related medical expenses. They are asking that Graduation Rates increase. They are asking that Educational Opportunities for student athletes in Good Standing be protected. They are asking that universities be prohibited from using a permanent injury suffered during athletics as a reason to reduce or eliminate a scholarship. They are asking to establish and enforce uniform safety guidelines in all sports to help prevent serious injuries and avoidable deaths, and they are asking to prohibit the punishment of College Athletes that have not xhited a crime. Is in any one on that list thats unreasonable . Is there any piece of that that your institution would say, no, im awfully sorry, we cant do that. Or let me phrase it positively. Would you each be willing to lead an effort in your respective conferences to see to it that your fellow member institutions say, absolutely, guys. You are absolutely right. Were go
Lounges. Student athletes also receive financial benefits which help them progress to a degree completion. The tuition and board fees for educational answers. The purpose and offering financial assist answers to encourage to complete their Academic Work in the vast majority do. The legal issue of employee status is ultimately a matter of congressional and 10 and we agree with that. In the instance however, the direct or has mechanically and we believe erroneously applied a rigidly wooden tasks draw from that, mom, notwithstanding his chairman suggested, the absence of any congressional intent athletics as an employment dania. The private institution creates a dichotomy. For example, the decision rightly knows the northwestern universitys nonsectarian. But the nlrb has been struggling in various dimensions with religious liberty limitation on its own jurisdiction. So we should reasonably expect some private religious affiliated universities to challenge the Voice Authority to be regulat