The Not-So-Sweet 16 Reasons College Athletes Are Really Employees

There’s something incredible about March Madness.

The fun of comparing brackets with everyone from the President to your cubicle buddy. The break from work monotony to catch the final minutes of an upset in the company lunchroom. The gambling. The school pride. Doing Dick Vitale impressions at the dinner table. The TV on all day long. A distraction from the last of the winter’s snowstorms.

And at the center of it all, the drama of seeing which university’s employees can beat the other universities’ employees to claim the national title.

Yes – employees.

My case for formally recognizing the competitors for what, as a practical matter, they already are can be found here.