In a special audio-only version of Bronco Studios Live presented by Ford, host Jay Tust gets several viewpoints, for and against, collective bargaining in college sports. He visits with Boise State Director of Athletics Jeramiah Dickey, Athletes.org founder Jim Cavale, college sports writer Matt Brown (extrapointsmb.com), and Boise State law professor Sam Ehrlich.
2:10 Jeramiah Dickey, Boise State Director of Athletics, and Jim Cavale, Founder of Athletes.org
3:40: What is Athletes.org and what does Jim Cavale hope to achieve with it
9:40: Jeramiah Dickey’s viewpoint on collective bargaining and what organizations like Athletes.org provide to college athletics
11:20: How does an organization like Athletes.org get changes made across different states and different state laws
15:50: Why would anyone be for and against employment status in college sports
20:30: An Athletic Director’s perspective on student-athletes becoming employees
22:20: What is the next step in Athletic Director and University presidents getting moved towards a solution and overcome the current obstacles
27:30: How would athletes benefit collective bargaining and why would they want collective bargaining
31:00: Are guardrails necessary for college sports, from an Athletic Director’s perspective
34:20: What is needed for these efforts and what are the results of them in the next 5 years?
37:30: An athletic director’s perspective on what could happen in the next 5 years?
40:25: Will this be led by athletes or schools?
42:30: The potential movement and its impact on Olympic sports
46:01: How important is it to have these discussions? Encouraged or discouraged on where things stand today?
50:40: How to view the “chaotic” moments that happen in the day-to-day of college athletics?
52:20: Matt Brown and his trip to Boise a couple years ago
53:35: Why is fan engagement so important?
55:15: Why did Matt Brown start Extra Points as a newsletter and choose to focus on “off the field” things in college sports?
57:35: Thoughts on collective bargaining in college sports and its impact on college football
60:00: How realistic is collective bargaining in college football
63:10: Why would college athletes view collective bargaining as beneficial to them
65:30: What is a realistic timeline for collective bargaining to take place and be completed
67:30: How likely is it that laws get changed at the federal level to start the process of moving towards collective bargaining
70:30: Does a split in college football facilitate collective bargaining
72:30: Defining the standards of what it means to be at the potential split levels of college football
75:00: If Matt Brown was in charge of college football, what is one thing he would institute?
77:20: What is one challenge and one opportunity for Boise State going forward?
80:00: Sam Ehrlich, Boise State law professor and founder of College Sports Litigation Tracker website
81:30: Why he created CollegeSportsLitigationTracker.com
83:00: Why he picked sports law as a career path and passion project
84:45: Sam Ehrlich’s view of the benefits of collective bargaining in college sports
87:00: What is preventing collective bargaining from happening in college sports
90:30: How college sports has changed since situations like Maurice Clarett was trying to get into the NFL early to what is going on today, as well as the result of what collective bargaining does for leagues and players associations
92:00: How collective bargaining would go over in the state of Idaho
95:30: Is there a realistic path to laws changing to support collective bargaining in college sports
98:00: What does the discussion look like around collective bargaining in college athletics over the next 18-24 months
90:45: What happens to CollegeSportsLitigationTracker.com if collective bargaining is instituted in college sports
Jim Cavale
www.athletes.org
Matt Brown
www.extrapointsmb.com
Sam Ehrlich
https://www.collegesportslitigationtracker.com/
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