You're probably familiar with the recent effort by Northwestern football players to unionize. That effort has not so far been successful. According to the NCAA (and for now the National Labor Relations Board), student-athletes are not employees, and therefore cannot form labor unions.
Which is why it seemed a little dissonant this evening when Bud Foster, defensive coordinator at Virginia Tech, remarked to writers following practice in Blacksburg that the Hokies are considering fining players from their cost of attendance money as a disciplinary tool.
Foster said some people got in trouble for having players run at 6 am, so fining players' cost-of-attendance funds has been a topic.