Your graduate case study competition winners! Georgia State Univ. Sport Administration Program

I’m so honored to receive the CSRI Research Fellow Award at the CSRI Conference! This is an amazing community of scholars that has embraced me since I presented my dissertation research 11 years ago at my first CSRI conference!

Incredible week at CSRI Conference! Presented a conceptual model with the best co-authors, Daniel Springer, PhD, Simran Kaur Sethi, PhD (she/her), and Emily Padgett Plunkett. Grateful for the opportunity to learn from Drs. Molly Harry, Ph.D., Kristi Oshiro, Ph.D., Ashlyn Hardie, and many more this week!

We have three new CSRI Research Fellows: Chris Corr - Troy University Lisa Rubin - Kansas State University Molly Harry - University of Arkansas

It’s amateur sports!!!! (but you can’t bring cups onto the court that conflict with the tv sponsor)

So bummed I missed your amazing remarks!! Molly Harry, Ph.D. Congrats on earning the CSRI Conference Emerging Scholar Award 💯🙏🏽💯

Now that the Dartmouth men’s basketball team has unionized, a big question is whether we’ll see similar efforts by athletes at other universities. As I told Parker Purifoy, I think it’s likely we will. And the pending USC NLRB proceeding could make that even more likely.

More evidence fans/consumers don’t care if college athletes are paid, whether it’s for #NIL or athletic performance. In other words, “amateurism” does not create consumer demand for the product of college athletics. It just prevents the athletes from being fairly compensated.

Watching NLRB General Counsel at CSRI Conference. Great stuff on why college athletes meet the statutory definition of employee based on working conditions and treatment.

It has been incredible to hear Jennifer Abruzzo NLRB General Counsel give the keynote address at CSRI Conference! NLRB

#PantherFamily doing what we do!

Proud of this group that committed to prepping for a case study competition on their own during midterms, over our spring break, while juggling GA duties…and a team of four women winning 🔥. be on the lookout for Georgia State Univ. Sport Administration Program grads! #thestateway

What an honor to earn 2023 JIIA Outstanding article with coauthors Dr. Brennan K. Berg Dave Walsh Hutchinson, Simmond, and Havard

So much for the argument that #NIL is “killing college athletics” 🤷🏼‍♂️ #NCAAMarchMadness #NCAA

This new proposed class action lawsuit against the NCAA, alleging unlawful use of former college athletes’ NILs in highlight videos, could be the next costly lawsuit for the organization and its members. Courts are no longer buying the NCAA’s arguments.

Wanted to post this separately away from my larger thread. This is how the Third Circuit has directed the lower court to determine which college athletes are employees, and which are not. It's a broad test. And man, will there be a lot of scholarship/debate that comes from it.

Statement from the NCAA on the Johnson ruling today, reiterating its opposition to an employment model:

The NCAA loses in court, again. sportico.com/law/analysis/2…

One argument the NCAA makes in its opposition to college athlete employment is that if ALL college athletes are employees athletics programs will be eliminated. I think the 3rd Circuit intentionally addressed this argument in its Johnson decision.👇

So the court acknowledged not all college sports, and not all college athletes, are the same. And that some can be employees and some cannot. Which was likely done on purpose to address arguments made to the court about what will happen if all college athletes are employees.