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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:29 pm
Discuss Davidson College Athletics
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I will finish a masters degree at the University of Illinois School of Labor & Employment Relations in May. Michael LeRoy (UNC Law '86) is my favorite professor.Sir Walter Cat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:29 pmhttps://sports.yahoo.com/nlrb-director- ... 53244.html
Sacks found that even though Dartmouth’s players do not receive athletic scholarships, they receive “compensation,” including special treatment in their quest for “highly coveted” acceptance to the prestigious school.
“The coaching staff is allotted a certain number of … admission spots for players they scout based upon their basketball skills,” she wrote, “and encourages players to matriculate at Dartmouth rather than at a school which might offer them an athletic scholarship because of the lifelong benefits that accrue to an alumnus of an Ivy League institution.”
Sacks also rejected Dartmouth’s arguments that the school provides a wide range of support to all students, and that a finding that men’s basketball players are school employees could result in students participating in a variety of other extracurricular activities also being considered school employees.
She noted that students’ involvement in other activities does not “dominate” their schedules “to the extent that students are encouraged to take classes at particular times and then miss those dutifully scheduled classes due to the activity’s travel requirements.”
Sacks cited testimony in the case concerning the scale of support athletics department personnel connected to the men’s basketball team, and she wrote:
“No evidence in the record suggests that other students receive the extent of individual support and special consideration received by those individuals who participate in high-profile Division I collegiate athletics. …
“The record also does not suggest that the hypothetical student journalists, actors, and musicians described by the Employer in its brief are recruited and admitted through a special process because of their investigatory and artistic skills. Nor does the record indicate that these students’ journalistic and artistic endeavors require Dartmouth to employ multiple specialized individuals to monitor funds and brand management.”