WATCH: The Notre Dame recruiting update with Singer and Kelly (Oct. 19)
In a weekly YouTube live show at Blue & Gold, recruiting writers Mike Singer and Kyle Kelly give the latest on Notre Dame’s recruiting efforts.
The Notre Dame coaching staff is hitting the road Thursday, and the guys discuss where everyone will be and which recruits they’re expected to see. Plus, Singer and Kelly give their biggest takeaway from the Irish’s massive recruiting weekend that occurred when Notre Dame crushed USC 48-20 last Saturday.
It is not a show to miss for Fighting Irish fans. Watch it in the video player above!
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Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick in favor of collective bargaining
According to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger, Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick is in favor of introducing collective bargaining to college sports.
After a Senate hearing on name, image and likeness (NIL) that lasted more than two hours, Swarbrick proposed a model where athletes are not recognized as employees, but are able to negotiate an agreement with schools to, among other things, share revenue.
“It’s a fairly radical notion, but if we could find a way to reach binding agreements with our student-athletes, most of [the problems with NIL go] away,” Swarbrick told Dellenger. “We don’t have a mechanism to [collectively bargain] without them becoming employees. It would require a new mechanism that would recognize the rights of student-athletes to negotiate for the terms and conditions of their participation as athletes without being employees. I think it’s worth considering.”
Swarbrick also stressed the need to collectively bargain with an entity beyond just the schools, because it could de-level the playing field of college athletics too much.
“There is a challenge here,” Swarbrick said. “Are they bargaining with the NCAA or the conference? It can’t be school by school. You need some competitive equity. You couldn’t have one group of student-athletes negotiate for a 10-game season and another a 12-game season.”
