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Collective bargaining can be a be careful what you wish for moment for players, especially the elite ones. For the most part collective bargaining helps the greater good but will in all likelihood negatively affect the elite players.

Im not against a bill that reigns schools in. I am however against all schools are equal. Texas brings in significantly more than Baylor for example. It should be tiered. The other issue I have is limiting actual NIL because some players are highly valued and will push this cap way over. You can not restrict a player on how much they can earn. By this way of thinking it would be a detriment to other players on the team. For example Arch, Simmons, Cam, Wingo, and Goosby will probably equal 70% or more. Where would that leave guys like Biles, D Will, Mosely etc.

Has anyone heard how Lovisa has developed after redshirting? We need an update on her. Who is the women hoop reporter?

The closer CFB gets to Triple A baseball the less interested I will be in watching. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49441655/stanford-football-players-join-push-collective-bargaining

One encouraging statement from Dellenger, “ Many of the SEC/Big Ten’s proposed changes in Title II - expansion and pooling rights - are in a “good place.” Also, he has stated a few times that this bill needs the full support of the sec and B1G in order to pass. So much for cantwell’s arrogance in dismissing and outright targeting the two conferences who are college football.

Totally agree with you! Not a federal issue, nor a federal problem. I hope it doesn’t pass.

Randy Levine is one of the worst people to have involved in literally anything that you want to be successful. He’s played a critical role in turning the Yankees from powerhouse to bloated and underperforming.

As Mack says, “#facts”

Exactly. That's really the whole point. National rules don't accomplish much if nobody has the authority to enforce them and the penalties don't stick. Give college sports one set of rules and real enforcement behind them. That's where Congress can actually help. It's when they start trying to manage conference expansion, TV rights and the entire economics of the sport that they lose me.

Unfortunately this whole “Save” act is ALL political. And anytime a politician says they are going to fix something. It turns into bat guano very quickly. The Yankees CEO and Cody just happen to be big donors and buddies of guess who. Enough said. Their interests are not good for the universities involved for athletics or academics. Run like the wind from this bunch.

Our Government needs to stay out of college sports.

Restricting NIL sounds like something the courts will strike down. I am not sure any cap, if total and includes restrictive NIL, can withstand the courts if there is not some kind of collective bargaining agreement on the part of the players.

Texas will definitely still be one of the HAVES! Austin is POWERFUL resource UT!

They can put in rules but if no enforcement, solves nothing.

If you live in her state, don't vote for his co-sponsor.

Those are the Nike Free Trainer 5.0 V6 amp. 723939-800. Never worn. $110 MSRP. They're from 2015 - have just been sitting in my collection since then. Texas does custom colorways w/ logos for the big schools with their amp shoes - so there are Ohio State, Oregon, etc versions floating around out there, too. These are Charlie Strong era - maybe you've blocked it out of your mind 🙂 I'd do like $50 + ship if you're interested on those.

Trying to put together as many AH as they can.

Have to go back to 2023? We gave up 31 (wash), 24 (Houston) and 34 (OU). All games with a better offense we win. I’m not a PK lover but his unit largely performed - his late game defense was frustrating but not as much as Sark’s zero point halves.

Throw the Notre Dame AD out of the decision-making process. Stop treating that place like it's special because it's definitely not

Calls change from year to year even as much as game to game. WRs are on a choice route tree with strict rules. So you can literally call the same play four times consecutively and it'll be different depending on the defensive front and defensive backfield alignment. So even switching schools Parker doesn't have any more information of this year's scheme that isn't already on tape.

Bobby - any idea what is captured in the restrictive NIL language? Not sure how you can restrict legit nil. Generally UT is going to be in a good position with legit nil due to size of Austin, UT brand in Texas and nationally. Hopefully this would get rid of schools that are calling crap nil that is really pay for play.

I'm not against a bill. NIL, the portal, enforcement, that stuff needs a federal fix. You can't run college sports under 50 different state laws with nobody able to actually enforce anything. But we started out trying to fix that, and now Congress is setting spending caps, deciding who's allowed to expand, and rewriting how TV rights can be pooled. That's not cleanup anymore. At that point they're writing the operating manual for the whole sport, with everybody in the room lobbying for their own piece. And the funny part is the SEC and Big Ten opposed the committee bill and now look like they're getting a lot of what they wanted anyway. Not exactly shocking. Those two conferences cover 26 states, that's 52 senators, and you need 60. If a compromise ends the chaos, fine, I'll take it. I just can't shake the feeling that we're not fixing college sports so much as creating the next mess we'll all be back here arguing about in five years.