Tennessee AD Danny White calls for collective bargaining to fix college sports

The transfer portal is not yet open, but players are already announcing their entry. Often this happens when coaches tamper with other rosters and offer enhanced NIL or revenue sharing deals. Now, Tennessee Volunteers athletic director Danny White thinks he has a solution.

White took to Twitter on Wednesday. There, he cited an article by Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wolken, saying, “Everyone in college sports knows the solution, but they just don’t have the courage (yet) to execute it.” » Wolken himself was responding to a complaint from Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz regarding tampering. That solution, which White wanted to emphasize, is collective bargaining with the players.

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This,” wrote Danny White. “There is a path to building a much healthier environment for college athletics within our country’s current laws – it’s called collective bargaining. It will be complicated, difficult and probably not perfect, but it is past time to roll up our sleeves and do the work.

This story will be updated.