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Per Rohan Nadkarni, Northwestern players and CAPA have won their lawsuit at the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago. As a result, Northwestern players will hold a vote on whether to unionize.
Northwestern is expected to appeal, so this is just the first round in a battle that will potentially go all the way to the Supreme Court (indeed, I fully expect it to). But this will clearly impact college football and college sports generally, and is a historical moment.
Discuss away.....but please do your best to keep this civil and non-political (while recognizing that this is a politically charged issue), folks.