MAY 21, 2015 11:30a ET
MAY 21, 2015 11:30a ET
On Tuesday, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced that if college athletes are eventually ruled to be employees of their respective universities, Notre Dame is prepared withdraw from the big-time sports landscape.
"Notre Dame's just not prepared to participate in any model where the athlete isn't a student first and foremost — that's the hallmark for us," Swarbrick told USA TODAY Sports after a Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics meeting. "If the entire model were to move toward athletes as employees, we'd head in a different direction.