Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott met this week with the Pac-12 #WeAreUnited unit group, and according to ESPN’s report, the meeting did not go well in the eyes of the players. Kyle Bonagura reported two days after the first meeting that the players had sent out e-mails with Scott and the Pac-12 conference and that she felt that Scott had rejected the players’ demands and felt that he did not take matters seriously enough. name.
“We were all disappointed and deeply concerned that you are not taking this matter seriously,” a letter to Scott sent out last Friday, signed by 18 student-athletes, said in an ESPN report.
Security in Oregon Jevon Holland has been part of the Pac-12 unit movement and he explained some of his concerns in the letter about what is transpiring and how the league handles it.
“We love the communities we participate in. But, we are afraid of the possible consequences of athletes playing sports before it is safe enough to do so,” the players’ letter said. “That’s why during our meeting with you yesterday, Oregon Safety Jevon Holland explained, ‘Our deepest fear is the negative return of the Pac-12 to play may result in a member of our Pac-12 family dying from COVID -19. ‘”
One of the concerns among the players is that they want regular, daily testing of the Pac-12, and then a consistent testing policy for conference broads. According to the letters received by ESPN, Scott claimed that the tests were unavailable and impossible to mandate.
The Pac-12 players sent a list of demands on August 3, while also raising concerns and questions they have about their safety and the safety of other athletes at their conference.
The demands sent to the Pac-12 last weekend were protections for health and safety, protecting all sports, ending racial injustice in college sports and society, and economic freedom and equality. Among the four, economic freedom and equality included a component – fair pay for markets, rights and freedoms – with the demand that 50 per cent of the total conference revenue of each sport be divided equally among athletes in their respective sports.
In economic freedom and equality, the players also demanded guaranteed coverage for medical expenses, freedom to secure representation and earn money for name image, six-year athletic scholarships (completion for undergraduate and graduate degree), elimination of all free speech policies and charitable work outside compulsory participation in athletics, a one-time transfer rule with immediate compliance (moreover in cases of abuse of serious negligence), a preservation of eligibility after participating in a pro-draft and going without selection, and rights to due process .
As far as the coronavirus pandemic is concerned, players have been given an option not to play – without being considered as a team roster – a ban on appointments that depart from school or program liability and player-approved health and security standards, which are further enforced by a third party selected by players.
The players also demanded that Commissioner Larry Scott, managers and coaches “voluntarily and drastically” take a pay cut for too much salary. At the same time, the players wanted to put an end to performance and academic bonuses for administrators and coaches, and to ban “rebuilding spending of facilities” instead of using these funds to maintain all program sports.
Racial injustice mentioned the following three points:
Form a permanent Citizens’ Initiative Task Force, consisting of our leaders, experts of our choice, and university and conference administrators to address emerging issues such as racial injustice in college sports and in society.
In partnership with the Pac-12, 2% of conference revenue would be directed by players to support financial aid for low-income Black students, community initiatives, and development programs for university athletes on each campus.
Form an annual Pac-12 Black College Athlete Summit with a guaranteed representation of at least three athletes of our choice from each school.
