you are a potential starter next year. and the kids are 19, 20, 21 years old in some cases, and still very young and impressionable minds, and it comes in the form of authority of the beloved football coach. if you had to handicap the chances of this thing going to pass, what would you say? i don t think that it is going to pass. no? and because the kids when it comes down to it, their education, and the scholarship, and the potential to go play in the nfl is at risk if they don t play football and they have to transe fer. it is a very difficult process, so my chances of it actually passing, i would say very slim. and alicia, here is the big question that a lot of the folks are asking, if this does pass and defies the odds and does pass, does this then pave the way for paying college football players? it is one path being used to hopefully pave and yes, one path. what happens is if they pass the vote to unionize, they can ask northwestern to come to the collective bargain