Vandy AD: Players' Unions 'Mind-Boggling' for NCAA

Vanderbilt could have had the only football players union in the SEC.  The Commodores could have demanded better working conditions, overtime pay for offseason workouts and the authority to set their own practice schedule.  They could have requested the power to veto player dismissals or examined the idea of going on strike if scholarship payouts were not multi-tiered according to seniority.  But since Northwestern players’ bid for the right to unionize was surprisingly declined by the National Labor Relations Board on Monday, that endless list of consequences cannot potentially be sought by players from Vanderbilt or the other 16 private schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision.