The Southeastern Conference filed an amicus brief last week to support the NCAA in its ongoing attempt to prevent the recognition of college athletes as employees of the schools they attend.
The NCAA is a defendant, along with Villanova and other universities, in Johnson v. NCAA, a case originally brought by current and former college athletes in which they say that they should be qualified as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The conference argued that participating in college sports does not qualify as work under the law, that schools are not employers, and that athletes should not be paid.
“Such participation should be categorized as an extracurricular educational activity to be administered and conducted in a manner consistent with each institution’s broader educational mission and policies,” the SEC wrote in its brief. “Not as an employer-employee relationship between the institution and the participants that requires mandatory pay.”
The SEC said in a statement to The Athletic on Monday that it “joined more than a dozen educational organizations, including the American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the NCAA in urging the court not to radically change existing law by treating student-athletes as employees of their universities.”
“Doing so, the SEC told the court, would be contrary to the spirit and purpose of the law. ‘Congress, the courts, and other federal...
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