There will not be any need for strikes. The moderate tone is consistent with Huma's personality. Huma said he hopes that by not threatening to affect the integrity of the games with strikes, the CAC will be more easily understood and accepted by college coaches, who then might be less inclined to stand in the way of their athletes creating local student chapters. Still, there is no underestimating what the CAC is up against. There are good reasons why in more than 100 years of college sports, athletes never have organized to speak with much of a collective voice.
Players are young, geographically separated, busy and often ignorant or confused about the issues.
It's sort of like leading a free speech movement in Nazi Germany. It's a movement already under NCAA surveillance. But, he said, the NCAA is not necessarily encouraging schools to prevent players from meeting with CAC leaders. Everyone has a right to free speech, last time I checked. Renfro said the NCAA would prefer that athletes voice their opinion through its Student Athlete Advisory Committee, a non-voting group he contends in recent years has helped influence legislation addressing athlete benefits.