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UAB football became the first full Division I football team to join a fledgling organization that hopes to represent athletes as college sports moves to a more professional model after a meeting arranged by head coach Trent Dilfer. Athletes.org says its co-founders met with UAB's players about two weeks ago. They laid out a vision for a not-so-distant future of college sports, which includes athletes collectively bargaining with schools, conferences or possibly the NCAA. Athletes.org is not a union and one of several organizations trying to organize athletes. It has signed up more than 2,900 college athletes from various sports.
