Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Highlight

To pursue the case, NCAA Division I football and basketball players had to be certified as a class, a barrier many commentators feared they wouldn’t be able to clear. Judge Wilken’s ruling sets the stage for further litigation, including the nightmare scenario: A Fair Labor Standards Act class action on behalf of even a small number of highly profitable former college athletes for back wages could lay waste to the concept of amateurism and push the NCAA into the historical abyss.