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

but yeah he's correct and obviously so. but after the CBC kills any hope of this bill in 2027 you can thank this exact point
He’s not correct.

He would have been correct if he had left race out and simply said the NCAA and Universities are bringing in billions off football and men’s basketball while those athletes haven’t (until recently) seen any of that revenue. A statement like that doesn’t get a senator in the news cycle though.
I always find these arguments denying race as important hilarious. Are we living in some dream state where race hasn't always been literally the most important thing in public policy lol. Let's just pretend the last thousand years never happened and Viola it's all different now
 
A lot of you want to glaze over the real issue, and that’s football and men’s basketball need to have the student part dropped from “student athlete” and need to be employees in some fashion. These two sports also need to be separated somehow from the rest of the athletic department and made into their own entities. They are the only sports that make money and the billions they generate is why this is an issue.
This is reasonable but I don't care at the moment. The 'kill Miami' bill needs to die
 


SIAP, but I ******* love this. Make people at least defend the hypocrisy and maybe it clicks for some.


It’s not a difficult position to defend. Coaches are employees and the athletes are not. Instead of adding DOA amendments that are nothing more than attempts at scoring political points, like this and the ridiculous coach transfer rule, maybe start addressing the real issues. Acknowledge CFB and men’s basketball are not like other collegiate sports and need to be treated differently. Show me the politician who’s will to do that.

Making comparisons between coaches and players, and saying things like “lets cap coaches salaries”, is just alluding to players being employees without actually coming out and saying players are employees and need to be treated as such.
 
Acknowledge CFB and men’s basketball are not like other collegiate sports and need to be treated differently. Show me the politician who’s will to do that.
They have acknowledged it; many times over. Hence, why the result of combined 9 figures in lobbying and legal fees over the past dozen years is this legislation known as the PCSA.

That’s their response to the acknowledgment. This is their solution.
 
They have acknowledged it; many times over. Hence, why the result of combined 9 figures in lobbying and legal fees over the past dozen years is this legislation known as the PCSA.

That’s their response to the acknowledgment. This is their solution.

What politician has actually came out and said CFB and men’s basketball are different and should be treated differently? Who has actually suggested that they are employees and should no longer be “student athletes”? I have yet to see any. This bill just continues to lump all sports together as amateur student-athletes and I have yet to see anyone attempt to change that definition or make any suggestion that CFB and men’s basketball should be separate from the rest of the athletic department.
 
That’s fine, but until collective-bargaining is done, any Bill the old guard tries to put through will die either in the house or the Senate. Eventually, they will learn and collective-bargaining will be done. Again, not one athlete was a part of this negotiation and that’s unacceptable! First off, trying to limit their money earning potential is against the law, which is really going back to the Eddie oBannion lawsuit, the start of all of this.

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.
We as a state have more reps in DC than most other states…. (Florida)
 
So Trump is attending the Texas-Tennessee game, which is very interesting. Either he's trying to boost Texas candidates OR he finds his way into the booth to promote this bill.
 
We as a state have more reps in DC than most other states…. (Florida)
That’s a good thing and that’s why with Congress out until after the midterms, there’s no way they’re gonna vote on this with a lame duck Congress. This thing will die in Congress and that is a good thing for UM and for student athletes..
 
So Trump is attending the Texas-Tennessee game, which is very interesting. Either he's trying to boost Texas candidates OR he finds his way into the booth to promote this bill.
Trump doesn’t give a **** about this bill, get real dude. He’s going there to boost Support for Candidates running for Office.
 
Disney/ESPN and the SEC built a machine. They controlled the biggest platform, the biggest narrative, the biggest money and, ultimately, a massive recruiting advantage. And while that machine was being built, certain SEC programs were operating in an environment where everyone knew what was happening with players and recruiting, yet the NCAA could hammer other programs while the traditional powers kept rolling. A handful of programs became talent warehouses. They could stack five-stars three deep, lose players to the NFL and immediately reload with another elite class. And everyone else was told to just “develop better.”

Now the game has changed.

NIL, the transfer portal and revenue sharing have taken away some of the mechanisms that allowed a small group of programs to hoard talent indefinitely. Players have more leverage. Programs outside the traditional power structure have more avenues to compete for talent. And suddenly we're seeing a different college football landscape, and these programs are having a hard time competing, and they have to stop it, or it's curtains.
 
A lot of you want to glaze over the real issue, and that’s football and men’s basketball need to have the student part dropped from “student athlete” and need to be employees in some fashion. These two sports also need to be separated somehow from the rest of the athletic department and made into their own entities. They are the only sports that make money and the billions they generate is why this is an issue.
For obvious reasons, "they" aren't separating the $$$$$$$$$ sports from the others.

YOU know why.
 
Trump doesn’t give a **** about this bill, get real dude. He’s going there to boost Support for Candidates running for Office.
He certainly does give a **** about being able to tweet he fixed college sports. So you are adjacently, correct and incorrect.
 
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