<blockquote>Huma and the players themselves probably don't even know it fully, but they now have the leverage in this battle. They have read <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/?single_page=true">"The Shame of College Sports."</a> The money has become obscene. Commissioners make $1 million per year. Coaches make five times that amount.

Conference realignment ripped traditions asunder. Arian Foster says he took money at Tennessee. Then <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/23767702/dick-vitale-apologizes-for-comparing-arian-foster-to-a-prostitue">he was called a "prostitute"</a> by a cartoon caricature of a basketball analyst whose sport is as much in the gutter as any.

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via <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/23805205/apu-campaign-gaining-steam-and-has-some-precedent-in-fighting-ncaa">'APU' campaign gaining steam, has precedent in fighting NCAA - CBSSports.com</a>.
<blockquote>And the last thing the NCAA wants is organized players. That hints of a union. If that happens, that's when the NCAA disintegrates. It can't exist being responsible for workers' compensation or negotiating union contracts. In fact, the NCAA may owe its existence to a 1950s court decision that it <a href="http://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/how-the-ncaa-has-used-the-term-student-athlete-to-avoid-paying-workers-comp/"><em>wasn't</em> liable for workers' comp</a>.</blockquote>