NCAA President Mark Emmert: Unionization 'Strikes Most People As ... Grossly Inappropriate'

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- The NCAA president called an effort to unionize players a "grossly inappropriate" way to solve problems in college sports while insisting the association has plans to change the school-athlete relationship. Mark Emmert said Sunday that the NCAA wants to allow the big conferences with moneymaking teams to write their own rules, and those changes could solve many athletes' complaints more effectively than unionization. "To be perfectly frank, the notion of using a union-em...