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It'll be too "in the weeds" politically for most to care about but it actually would be interesting to know what exactly went down here (ie outside "lobbying") and who exactly knew what when....and how effing stupid or for sale all involved parties must be to think it was either going to slide under the radar or that they wouldn't have faced massive backlash personally had they succeeded.
You are correct. ****, we already have too many dopey porsters who get lost in the weeds if you simply cut-and-paste a Wikipedia write-up of OTHER primary sources, or you use the layman's term "spending" instead of the p-analytical word "appropriations".
So far, the "staffers" have been thrown under the bus as the "source" of the concerns cited by the "leadership" who authored the amendment. But as we all know, the "staffers" aren't in charge. I'm sure there were some threatening NCAA phone calls that went to Hutson and others, since you saw Hutson say "well, if Emmert will put that in writing".
But, again, we have to contrast the tuff-talk of the House Speaker last week ("FL will not bow down to the NCAA") with the rapid ****-proffering that went on this week. SOMETHING happened, but it's not about political contributions or The Illuminati. Someone from the NCAA falsely told Hutson that players could "lose their scholarships" (nope) instead of saying "the NCAA will try to rule those players ineligible", which is never going to actually happen (and would likely result in injunctive relief prior to becoming effective).
No big deal. Again, happy that the correct result transpired, but it was due to a groundswell of anger from the rank-and-file of the FL House/Senate, and not from the magical Veto Fairy Wand.