“Being a college athlete was one of the greatest gifts of my life – it opened doors of opportunity and offered lessons I carry with me to this day. But it also opened my eyes to some deep, systemic injustices in the system – a system that, to this day, continues to put profits over athletes.” – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey
Nearly a decade ago, when Northwestern University football players sought to form a union, head coach Pat Fitzgerald made an emotional appeal to dissuade them, asserting that “a third party” could not be trusted to protect the players’ best interests as well as he and his fellow coaches could.
