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07/27 10:50 CDT Stanford becomes first school to organize a player-led College
Football Players Association chapter
Stanford becomes first school to organize a player-led College Football Players
Association chapter
By The Associated Press
The College Football Players Association, an organization advocating for
unionization and collective bargaining, announced Monday that Stanford has
become the first team to organize a player-led chapter.
CFBPA executive director Jason Stahl said the goal is for other Atlantic Coast
Conference schools join Stanford in forming chapters. That would create
momentum for unionization and the ability for players to bargain with
conferences over working conditions.
Stanford players elected offensive lineman Fisher Anderson and linebacker
Ernest Cooper as their representatives.
"Stanford has been a pioneer and innovator not just in football but as a school
in general," Cooper said "This first-ever current player-led chapter at
Stanford is just another example of this innovation. We want to be leaders in
college football and show other schools how they can create a chapter on their
campus because we believe this is the future of college football."
Anderson said the CFBPA will play a role in giving players a voice in all
aspects of governing college football.
"Over the past five years, college football has been rocked back and forth by
the waves," he said. "When a CFBPA chapter becomes a reality on every college
football team, it would put down an anchor where there isn't one right now for
the sport. The chapters can then become the building blocks for conference-wide
collective bargaining agreements, which would bring sustainability,
transparency and player protections to a sport in need of all three."
The NCAA and conferences have been working with federal legislators on a Senate
bill that would grant the NCAA an antitrust exemption to be able to enforce
rules such as a salary cap and transfer restrictions. Some athletic directors
have suggested collective bargaining as an alternative if federal legislation
is not passed, but a number of obstacles related to giving college athletes
employee status would have to be cleared.
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