As College Football Season Kicks Off, The NCAA Is Still ‘Under Siege’
The NCAA scored a victory in August when the National Labor Relations Board declined to grant college athletes at Northwestern University the right to unionize. But even as the start of college football season this week diverts attention from a tumultuous summer, the NCAA and its major conferences are bracing for more challenges.
“It’s hard to have a feeling other than being an enterprise under siege,” Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby told The Huffington Post this week.
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