Jason Stahl was “smuggled” into the Penn State Football Team’s meeting room on the morning of July 14. The 44-year-old executive director of the College Football Players Association has a photo to prove it.
Approximately 100 Nittany Lions were waiting for his presentation at a conference convened by quarterback Sean Clifford. They discuss joining the early CFBPA of Stahl, a labor group that finally presented Big Ten (through Stahl) with a list of requests, including sharing income from the conference’s media rights contracts with workers. rice field.
However, the final plan for CFBPA- As originally reported by CBS Sports -If Big Ten officials refuse to meet voluntarily at the negotiating table, it is certainly unity.
The conference slideshow presentation obtained by CBS Sports details the “long win” strategy, including “official unionization”. By the spring of 2023, CFBPA plans to “negotiate CBA” (collective bargaining agreement).
According to Stahl, the timeline went crazy when an assistant coach at Pennsylvania State University came in during the last five minutes of the meeting.
“We hid it. We hid it all,” Stahl told CBS Sports. “”[The players] Literally, I smuggled into the facility at 7:30 am and gave a presentation all day when there were no coaches around. The only reason this leaked was that the fitness and training coach walked through the room for the last five minutes of the presentation. “
CFBPA presentation obtained by CBS Sports
That day, the up-and-coming labor movement may have slowed. Clifford issued a statement on Friday away from his involvement in CFBPA. However, that does not mean the transfer of player rights at Pennsylvania State University or elsewhere.
Included on it List of requests It was not only revenue sharing, but also enhanced healthcare.
CFBPA unionization was not mentioned on Friday when Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren responded to the request in a statement. In fact, Stahl told CBS Sports that “we are not a union.”
But when he arrived on Monday, Stahl further embodied the demands of his organization.
“There are basically two possible threats. One is the most enthusiastic and [another is] It’s one level below that, “Stal told the players. No one was boarding it. The backup option is to union-union the entire Big Ten Conference. ”
Similarly, the situation at Pennsylvania State University is less important than the 2015 Northwestern University player union attempt.
Player rights are a topic that will not disappear as the NCAA undergoes major changes. At the top end of college athletics, the transition to employee / employer relationships between athletes and schools is slowly progressing. Collective bargaining is not very technically advanced, but it represents a major change.
Warren said Friday that Big Ten has formed a student athlete advisory board “on the changing landscape of college sports.”
Stahl theorizes that the words of the meeting reached the Big Ten after being interrupted by Pennsylvania State University coach staff, athletic director Patrick Craft, and assistants. Following Warren’s statement, Clifford revealed his position.
“It would be inaccurate to characterize my dialogue on behalf of a union or member.” Clifford wrote..
Clifford is not a member of the CFBPA, but Stahl said three dozen teammates at Pennsylvania State University in Clifford applied for a $ 24 annual fee. Stahl said he organized players at State College, Pennsylvania, for the first eight days of the month.
“Shaun is currently experiencing a major internal conflict,” Stahl told CBS Sports. “‘Do you believe in this guy I just met?’ At one point he said he loved him,” he said.
The day after the meeting, Stahl told Clifford: , Someone will step in and fill the gap. ”
Big Ten and Pennsylvania State University did not respond to CBS Sports’ latest request for comment, and Nittany Lions stuck to a statement released Friday.
“In some conversations with Sean Clifford over the last few weeks, he shared with me his desire to explore ways to improve the student athlete experience of all Big Ten student athletes.” Dr. Patrick Craft of Penn State University said. Vice President of Inter-University Athletics.
“Sean is a tremendous young man educating himself on some of the major issues in athletics between colleges. Last week I contacted him with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren and a student athlete. I have suggested having a broader conversation about the experience. I am proud to support student athletes using their voices to influence positive changes in all areas of life.
The CFBPA presentation initially states that the goal is to establish a “PSU chapter” in association with the “whole team signed up as a member”.
A further plan was to launch a media campaign on July 18th, but it didn’t happen in the end before bringing Big Ten’s leadership and CFBPA to the table “to negotiate our demands”. did. The deal between the parties would have been announced Wednesday at the end of Big Ten Media Day. (It’s unlikely.)
The slide titled “Winning the Big Ten” shows “… the strength of Big Ten across all teams, including USC and UCLA,” and “brings B1G leadership and CFBPAB1G leadership to the table to negotiate our demands.” Proposed.
Starr resigned as a professor at the University of Minnesota in the summer of 2020. He started CFBPA in 2021.
