Could This Time Be Different? College-Athlete Unionization in the NIL and Revenue-Sharing Era

Stanford football’s new players-association chapter revives a question that college sports can no longer answer solely by invoking amateurism. By Justin B. Kozubal, Ph.D Abstract No single antitrust ruling made college athletes employees. Collectively, however, O’Bannon, Alston, the NIL marketplace, direct institutional revenue sharing, and the new challenges to compensation limits have materially changed the employee-status analysis. Stanford’s conference-oriented organizing model may als