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Protect College Sports Act [formerly “SCORE Act” thread]

GoCanes256 said:
It doesn’t help that schools like Syracuse needs this done to trap Miami in the ACC so senators like Chuck Schumer are voting for it even though it’s screws athletes. It helps keep the ****** Orange in the ACC with us.
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We could be in the middle of WW2 and Schumer would be voting for Hitler as the Dem nominee for president.
 
The Senate did change the 5 year requirement to be independent from 5 years to 3 and it will sunset in 6 years. It did NOT change the expansion cap of 19. The Senate will pass this now next week. Only hope is the House kills it.
 
bathtubgin said:
On the money earning issue, the current bill has language that essentially says third party NIL isn’t capped. That’s the attempt and working around any legal issue. Who knows if it will fly or not, but don’t assume it wouldn’t.

As for the rest of your post, yiure just repeating yourself. You’re fully convinced the bill will die because it doesn’t have player representation while ignoring reality, which is congress rarely cares about the opinions of those not giving them money.

Another issue being ignored is that CFB fandom as a a majority are fed up with lots of things going on in CFB. The majority want rules put in place to stop the Wild West situation currently going, but the fandom doesn’t agree on the answers either. For every UM fan calling their congressman to say kill this bill you have a fan of say an SEC team calling their congressman because they want this bill to pass.
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One thing I would say is I would bet if you polled the actual players, they would be oblivious to this bill and how it affects them.. There is a reason this is being fast tracked and when everything is implemented many will say they are surprised and were unaware.. ALOT of people involved are dropping the ball or have been bought off..
 
cookies said:
This is also by no means dead in the House despite the consistent claims repeated here. Congress routinely gets a ton of work done in the lame-duck period. 20-24 legislative days over 6-7 weeks is a long time. However it is quite a long time from now so nothing is imminent to worry about. It’s passing the Senate. That’s already done.

Still believe people (in here and out there on social media / in the media at-large; even the powerbrokers from the 5 ACC schools listed) are obsessing over this conference musical chair 🐂 💩 too much. That’s a shiny toy

Spoiler Alert: We are playing in the ACC in 2027 & 2028 — no matter wtf happens with this bill. 2nd Spoiler alert: our payout in both the summer of ‘27 and the summer of ‘28 from the ACC will be less than the schools in B1G and SEC. Last Spoiler Alert: even with increased payouts, those schools aren’t projected to match the NIL payroll we have.

The greatest and most immediate threat to UM is the salary cap. The NCAA will be able to fine us $1 for every $5 we go over the cap, and however much we go over gets subtracted from our-next-year’s salary cap—indentidem i.e. again and again until we get under the cap. And of course, said new cap for us would be lower than everybody else’s. As a big spender we’d have to take the most money away from our student-athletes. And that’s not just from our football team, that’s every single sports we have.

Our 2027 recruiting class, which we have already committed to spending large amounts of sums on, would then come into conflict with paying possible NFL early entrants to return to school, portal players, or players who want to stay but we’re reducing their wages by so much it’d be dumb for them to not go elsewhere as the teams who are not above the payroll-salary-cap-ceiling become incentivized to spend and quickly get really good players at a bargain price-point. Flipping other blue-chippers in the 2027 cycle; could become completely unfeasible in an instant. Affording portal players could be impossible cuz how close to the max we are. We’d have to cross-coordinate roster payroll limits between two dozen sports teams.
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I hate the cap as much as you do but the read I’ve been getting is that its going to get circumvented by the “un-associated” NIL deals. Otherwise the Louisiana senators , for example, probably wouldn’t be supporting the Bill.

The issue which complicates it is the inevitable selective enforcement on the part of the NCAA when it comes to policing unassociated NIL. Programs that are obvious targets like us will likely have to operate a lot more carefully.
 
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