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

I think Booker is the only senator who played high-level football as well. Tuberville played at a small school, and Thune was a basketball player somewhere iirc.

Some other senators were college athletes but I forget who’s who

“They’re not serious about the exploitation of college athletes, protecting their health, safety and ability to share in the enormous profits that’s being created because of their sweat and labor … There’s no industry or activity in America where this much wealth is created and the people that actually create the wealth are not seeing the kind of benefits or protections they deserve.” -- U.S. Senator Cory Booker
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Jassid82 said:
The CBC putting out a statement on this is the most random post ive seen in a long time. LOL. Didnt see that one coming.
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Not really; they were against the score Act, and people assumed that when they added a section 3 to this Bill about HBCUs, they would come on board. Clearly, they did not.
 
cookies said:
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To anyone with a brain not allowing a spring portal window is literally the stupidest most illegal thing the NCAA has tried.

Even when the NCAA was prohibiting NIL and enforcing a 1yr ineligibility mandatory for all transfers they were allowing Grad Transfers with Immediate eligibility- which can ONLY happen in Spring “portal window”. Colleges academic calandar doesn’t revolve around football. 95% of students finish their school year after May.
 
Jassid82 said:
Wait...thats in the bill??? Are you kidding me??
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I have not read the whole bill but given that Cruz is attached to it I highly doubt it has language that would overturn state law banning it. So kind of an amendment looking to solve a non-existent issue as it relates to this bill.
 
I can’t believe some people in here still haven’t realized how bad this bill is for UM. And everyone keeps assuming it won’t pass. Well, you better ******* hope not. This would be the death blow to UM as a resurgent power. We would be ****ed. And the SEC / B1G know it. That’s why they want this to pass.
 
skyman said:
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Buddy has too much dip on his chip.

SMU is going 8 or 9 years without a media payout, and made the playoffs in their first year cementing another legit program in the conference. May not have the biggest alumni base but they’re rich, they spend, they are in a huge metro area, they are in it to win it, and they’re **** sure thankful we let em in. It was absolutely the right move.

Rhett Lashalee turned down his alma mater Arkansas who “wants to win,” to stay at SMU.

Adding those 3 schools made us the only conference with schools in the most populated five states; and Stanford + Cal are only getting 30% of the media rights revenue for 7 years before two years of 72.5% then full distribution. Adding those schools increased our package by 100M’s. We are the only conference with teams in North Carolina (9th) and Virginia (12th) as well, and we split Atlanta with large alumni bases of our schools, mostly GT.

The problem is that Duke & UNC basketball is making money hand over fist for espn and the conference isn’t getting their kickback for it as they should. thats jim Phelps and his predecessor’s fault.

The college football playoff made March madness an undervalued asset & Disney demolished us in negotiations. No one ever thought to have the bright idea to sell football and basketball separately. Hopefully Brett Yormack doing that with the Big XII will teach the ACC a lesson so Disney can stop robbing us.

Buddy is acting like Stanford didn’t just go on a fifteen year run of being one of the best programs in CFB lol.

Too much self loathing in the ACC, we’re a better football conference than common misconceptions state.

Brohm tore up the B1G at ****** Purdue lmao. Purdue, miss state, and many other schools in those conferences are dependent on an elite coach in order to do anything meaningful. Rutgers, Maryland, Northwestern etc aren’t exactly standard bearers lol….Michigan State has had a pretty similar trajectory to Stanford. Kentucky kept the same coach for thirteen years and his final record was 72-80.

South Carolina was trash in the ACC and they’re trash in the SEC.

Vanderbilt and Penn State were trash reputation wise when James Franklin got there. Bill O Brien became an NFL coach for going 15-9 there lmfao. Now does Boston college not want to win cuz they hired him? That’s absurd. Meanwhile Boston colleges previous head coach is now a NFL HC.

Wanting to win by any means possible can also backfire when it leads you to dumbass decisions and being cheap; cc: Wisconsin.




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& I hate the bill ofc but tired of people thinking these 2 conferences are playing a different sport out here lmao
 
Giving this some more thought, the requirement in the bill to operate as an independent for 5 years isn’t a problem.

Let’s play out a scenario here. Assume that Miami leaves the ACC on 1/1/2027 to join the SEC on 1/1/2032. Nothing stops the SEC and Miami from entering a scheduling agreement to fill out 8 or 9 of Miami’s games each of those 5 years.

Problem solved!

The real problem is the cap. However, I think that’ll be solved either in the House or the courts. If not, I believe the Big10 or the SEC would eventually jettison deadweight programs like Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, etc. to make room for a marquee brand like Miami.
 
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