EU prevents them from signing professional contracts until they’re 16. Also, they are providing education not just sports and is free unlike our pay to play model. It’s actually pretty similar to the college athletics mode. you also have to remember that the university system is completely different in Europe. It’s free, but anyone can’t just decide they want to go to college.
You're going to have a hard time finding more than a handful of tennis player who are first generation college students. The cost to develop these kids into D1 caliber players is almost impossible for low income families. The few would have to be absurd outliers like Tiafoe who had an extreme luck in getting coaching without paying. But even he went professional.
They are mostly pissed because they have paid out the nose for "consultants" to manage the NIL opportunities for their athletes this year
How about those coaches speak up on the attacks on LGBTQ people?? $20-60K per year for some of these services, lol
The professional sports leagues are able to set salary caps and other restrictions without violating antitrust because labor collective bargaining is an antitrust exemption. That’s why the NFL periodically dissolves it’s union and she’s in antitrust when it’s contract lapses and there is a lockout. A union is never going to happen in college football, particularly in the south. The NCAA is paralyzed right now on football.
I enjoy the idea that some talking heads have that the NCAA has any ability to get a handle on this going forward