Pete Carroll coaching another team simultaneously wouldn't happen not because the players vetoed it but because his contract forbade it. The players have no say whatsoever.
CBAs are about working conditions and compensation. There's nothing in any CBA about player trades -- that's the team's prerogative. The players have no choice in the matter. Regardless of the analogy if a BTC athlete wants to be in a training group personally coached by Schumacher they are gonna have to relocate. Terrence Mahon's athletes followed him from Mammoth Lakes to the UK to Boston when he took different jobs. If an athlete wants to be coached by Bosshard, guess what? They are going to have to move to Colorado. If an athlete wants to be coached by Bob Kersee, guess what? They are going to have to move to Southern California. If a track athlete wants to be coached by a particular coach they have to move to wherever their coach is.
Comparing the CBAs of other pro sports doesn't work in this case. Almost all pro runners are independent contractors. In this case, they can't be "traded" before their contract ends.
These athletes chose BTC for the specific environment that existed when they signed their contract. They all took pay cuts to join BTC but those cuts were offset by getting "free team benefits". I'm not going to list the things that are paid for by being a member of BTC vs. someone like Clayton Murphy. However, some of those benefits that were part of the Beaverton BTC group are different than those received as being part of a Eugene BTC group.
Some of the team will benefit from the move (steeplers) and others will leave and find a new group when their contracts expire.
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