Why is it I can see the obvious solution that's coming, and they can't? (UPDATED)

Dartmouth basketball team can unionize, government official states

In September, all 15 players on the Dartmouth men's basketball team signed a petition seeking to join Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union

no soup — or athletic scholarships for them, once the team’s disbanded. Worse, Dartmouth has reinstated the SAT as an admission requirement

I have a very good friend, graduate of a then-respected Ivy League school, who confessed to me that he’d been accepted there because of his rowing prowess: “no way, if it had depended on my grades and SATs”. If varsity sports disappear — and for all but a few schools, sports are a money-loser — that admissions avenue will no longer exist for many young, jocks.

UPDATE: Our New Mexico correspondent chimes in, even providing a handy chart.

How much do they think they’re worth?