<p>Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are going to talk about college sports and unionization. Our guest is Nellie Drew. Drew is a law professor and founder of the Center for the Advancement of Sport at the University at Buffalo. </p><p>In this episode, we talk about myriad employment law issues the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) is facing, from the rise of name, image and likeness deals to the unionization of Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team, to arguments about who, exactly, the athletes work for if they are, in fact, employees.</p><p>Collectively, all of this portends seismic changes in the NCAA in the employment law space. “It’s clear that this ball’s been rolling downhill a long time,” Drew says. “It took a while. It took a long while, and for most of our lifetimes, the NCAA had a stranglehold on what was previously known as a student athlete.”</p><p>But that term could become a relic of the past. “The prospects for the NCAA do not look good. There’s at least one case out there that may very well sound the death knell for the NCAA in terms of just massive amounts of liability,” Drew says.</p><p>---</p><p>AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.</p><p>Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.</p><p>If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe</a>
