We recently reported that Northwestern University’s football team was weighing options to unionize.

Breitbart contributor C. Edmund Wright extrapolates what this could mean for Title IX-based sports team requirements that have expanded women’s teams to the detriment of men’s.

It’s been almost comical to watch the liberal sports media’s obvious arousal over what they deem the heroic effort by the Northwestern football team to unionize. I say almost comical because this effort is something that could change the face of college athletics forever, and not necessarily for the good either.

It is also based on a fundamental flaw. And as is the case with liberals in general, the MSNBC wannabes at ESPN – and other outlets – have no situational awareness of the potential unintended consequences if this is successful. They are simply driven by the leftist reflexive hatred of “the man,” which in big-time college athletics, means fat-cat athletic directors and coaches apparently – and of course the NCAA. You know, all the people “exploiting” these poor put upon college athletes. Never mind that every single big-time athlete knew the deal years ago and yet still ordered their entire lives to try and obtain this status. Exploitation has never been so pleasant, let alone desired evidently.

…So if this Northwestern effort is successful, gone would be much of the money now spent on all of the non-revenue sports on scholarships, travel, uniforms, arenas and other facilities, coaches, etc. The swim team and women’s basketball and field hockey and so on would have to face the market, meaning they would be gone. Oops.

In other words, a hell storm of a Pandora’s box of complications will be unleashed that apparently no one has contemplated. You know, a lot like ObamaCare. In addition to the separating of athletes by revenue status, you would have to further stratify schools and conferences too. Unionized football would eventually become only available for the largest handful of schools with massive fan bases. After all, no self respecting players’ union will allow big state universities to prop up small private schools in football by conference alignments, guaranteed pay days, and television games.

We’ve all seen union thugs in Ohio and Wisconsin operate. Do you think for a minute that the union will allow Ohio State and Wisconsin’s huge fan bases continue to subsidize, say, Northwestern by way of shared Big Ten revenues? Oops. How ironic.

And Baylor, you can forget sharing in Texas’s revenues via the Big 12. This list goes on and on, and if you think I’m exaggerating, you have not followed union history very closely. These consequences might not manifest immediately, but they are preordained if Northwestern’s players are successful. If you think the ObamaCare roll out was a disaster, wait until big time college football is unionized. Only the liberals will be surprised.