College athletes, your moment of ultimate leverage has arrived. It’s time to use it.
All over the country right now, coaches and administrators are desperately scrambling to figure out how to get the college football season going so that their nine-figure athletics budgets can remain intact and a flow of cash that relies on the work of unpaid labor doesn’t get turned off forever.
They’re doing it with limited information about what will happen when hundreds of college athletes start congregating around dorms and weight rooms again, and they’re doing it without the input or consent of anyone whose sole responsibility is to advocate for the athletes and their safety.