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Given today’s hostile labor environment, it’s hard enough maintaining institutional discipline in a traditional union, much less in a bunch of college kids, many of whom, one short year ago, were a bunch of high school kids.

All this non-decision does is push major college athletics further into a sea of questions, with no floatation device – not even the government agency responsible for resolving labor disputes – available to help. The question at the heart of the debate remains unanswered.

In a unanimous decision, the National Labor Relations Board has rejected Northwestern University football players’ petition to form a union by declining to assert jurisdiction in the case.