The future of the NCAA is cloudy, and the spectrum ranges from dead to overhauled to who knows in the coming days.
There is no shortage of issues at hand — pay for players, rules enforcement, the rising cost of attendance and the escalating salaries of coaches and profits of major college programs — and the NCAA has handled these hurdles with the dexterity of the Titanic.
The one thing we all seem to believe to be certain is that change is coming. What format that change assumes is unknown.
Friday morning the Northwestern football players voted whether to form a union. The votes will be stored until the school’s appeals are heard.
Whatever you think about unions is up to you, but we believe if one of the Northwestern players asked our opinion, we’d tell him to vote no for the following reasons: