situation, if you re an employee and the foundation of that argument is based on the fact that you re getting compensation, then the irs is going to have something to say about that as well. then, of course, you also have the work comp issues that certainly need to be dealt with. sure. i think this is a great first step, but it s far from the end. i think at the very least it gets that conversation going. i have to go to allison who has a bit of a different take. part of your argument is if we go down this road, we ll end up with minor leagues and a system that actually only benefits 1% of athletes. well, not necessarily. i mean, you can define these athletes as student athletes who are also employees. i mean, i actually have been on this side before because as a graduate student, i went through this in between 20002005 because they ruled us as graduate student employees and said we weren t employees anymore. it was actually, i don t have a firm view either way if they re emplo