WATCH: Notre Dame bye week talk with Hyde and Singer
In a weekly YouTube live show, Blue & Gold’s Tim Hyde and Mike Singer discuss and react to the latest news and notes in the world of Notre Dame football and recruiting.
Notre Dame has a bye week after playing eight consecutive games, but Singer and Hyde aren’t off this Wednesday. On the docket for the Wednesday night show is an overview of where Notre Dame’s freshmen stand with their redshirt status, what the Irish staff needs to do during the bye week and assessing quarterback Sam Hartman after the team’s 6-2 start to the season.
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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.”
