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

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These are the two most immediate consequences I keep returning to when picturing what’s a world like if this passes.


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The fine is the lesser of two evils, however, it grows more devilish when combined with the excess benefits rollover.

The excess benefits rollover is actually insane.

I’m also now realizing they are basically ****** over incoming freshmen & portal players the most.

The normal benefits cap is around 22 mill, with the retention cap being at about 27 mill. Since incoming freshmen are locked out of that latter pool, as well as transfers, it remarkably depresses the value of being a 5 star since paying DGG low 7 figures now has to be balanced with not just the football roster, but other sports as well.

Moreover, the rentention pool mechanism is another tool borrowed from the nba’s salary cap rules—all while granting the NCAA protections against employee protections because classes of athletes didn’t organize & lobby politicians for years on end.

I haven’t seen Bryce underwood promoting Oracle, and I wonder how that deal would fare against stricter scrutiny from the CSC. Would it be allowed? Would it count against the cap? Etc.
 
I’m sure I’m missing something here but not seeing how this completely effs Miami even if we don’t ultimately move to the BIG or SEC. Unless I’m not understanding, the school is capped at $48.5M to pay its players but what is stopping the athletes from obtaining outside NIL from outside parties like they do now? As long as the school isn’t involved, why can’t Miami’s NIL program continue on as it currently does?
 
canesbaby said:
I’m sure I’m missing something here but not seeing how this completely effs Miami even if we don’t ultimately move to the BIG or SEC. Unless I’m not understanding, the school is capped at $48.5M to pay its players but what is stopping the athletes from obtaining outside NIL from outside parties like they do now? As long as the school isn’t involved, why can’t Miami’s NIL program continue on as it currently does?
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Technically nothing is stopping athletes from obtaining outside NIL, the problem I see is the restrictions placed on what counts as outside money or money affiliated with the school, the latter of which would be illegal to use as NIL $ (after the cap), and who gets to decide and enforce this - the NCAA & their oversight board, which will absolutely go back to enorcing everything against us and nothing for their darlings. And it gives them protection to do as they like.

To your point though, it is also true that Miami's a major media market & the U is a major brand, and our players do get massive deals and the like as we've already seen with Mali & Adidas + Mensah & Sling TV or whichever it is (I've seen it quite a few times as an ad on my phone). So some of that might be mitigated. On the other hand, you have the conference restrictions, which after a while, SEC & B10 could potentially lock us out after adding Notre Dame.

They really, really do hate us bro.
 
ssvir said:
I agree. That was never the case over the last 250 years.

Justin Timberlake What GIF
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If you wanna go that route, I could easily point to the fact that there has never been anything close to the amounts of money "donated" (lobbying) to Congress since the Republican stacked Supreme Court passed citizens united with America's top crook in the oval office leading the way. Business and other interests can now give freely without cap to sway votes, so yeah, your sarcastic comment actually speaks truth. It hasn't always been like this. Not to this extent or anything close.
 
At some point, Miami plus a coalition of other schools (Miami, FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA/Virginia Tech, Stanford and Utah) need to come out publicly against this.

Jim Phillips is going around saying the ACC speaks with one voice and likes the legislation. The fact that “the conferences and schools unanimously back this” is a big reason Congress is voting for it.

Schools that are against it need to make sure they are heard, and not behind closed doors.
 
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